On-line open/free content originates from a variety of sources. This edition of NetSpeak explores yet another avenue for tapping free content. Read More »

The Open Hardware Summit (OHS), now in its second year, brings together folks from all different backgrounds and truly represents a melting pot of those with interests in the open hardware movement...The keynote was presented by the Arduino team, who addressed issues of scale and running a successful business--software can be entirely free, but hardware has an intrinsic cost, and so there must always be a business model associated with it. Read More »

October 14th, 2011, a group of innovators, policy and health IT experts, healthcare providers, patient organizations, technology companies, and government agencies will gather in Washington, D.C. to assess progress in improving transitions in care and to prioritize how better use of health IT can address some of the most difficult challenges related to care transitions on a broader scale. Read More »

With the launch of General Electric's Healthymagination Cancer Challenge, the best and brightest technical minds have been called to work on something that matters: fight breast cancer...GE and a number of venture capitalists are putting $100 million behind the challenge... to fund cancer-related R&D over the next five years. Read More »

For outsiders, the major news of interest from this week's OpenStack conference in Boston was the announcement of an OpenStack Foundation. I attended the conference yesterday where the official announcement was made, and tried to find out more about the move. Read More »

The Rochester Institute of Technology Gollisano College Dean's Lecture Series established in 2003 was "designed to expose 'real world' experts to our students and to provide professional development opportunities for our alumni and community friends."...This year, Abelson gave the audience an update on all things OER and the new Center for Mobile Learning at MIT. Read More »

Where do you start to standardize legislative information for all 50 United States? Blazing an open data trail for one state government isn't easy, so shifting 50 must be nearly impossible. Or is it? The Open State Project is making progress towards the impossible—and closing in on the goal. Read More »

Beyond public domain dedications or open licensing, OER producers (whether self-organizing communities, individuals, or institutions) need to be free to make their own decisions along the axes of access, efficacy, digital, etc. in order to best achieve the aspirations that prompted them to develop OER in the first place. Read More »

Once viewed as a friendly means to gain a strategic and competitive advantage, collaboration is the means to effectively address transitioning a broken health care delivery system to that of a new and improved patient-centered care system of the future. Read More »