Automation eases research grant tracking and submissions to institutional review boards (IRB). What may surprise people who do not work in this field is that until quite recently those have remained paper-based processes, presenting research office administrators with real knowledge management headaches. Read More »

In October, the Department of Veterans Affairs will launch a go-slow approach to enabling physicians and others to use Apple iPhones and iPads for limited purposes. Read More »

Launched in 2010, FrontlineSMS:Credit is a social enterprise that produces software tools to enable organizations and businesses to easily use mobile money. Realizing that there was a gap in the market for an efficient way of managing organizational data, FrontlineSMS seized this opportunity and linked FrontlineSMS’ existing platform to mobile money. Read More »

The Kenyan office of MicroEnsure, a subsidiary of US-based microfinance network Opportunity International, is employing M-Pesa, a mobile money service in Kenya, and FrontlineSMS:Credit, a nonprofit software provider specializing in mobile financial services, to offer microinsurance policies independent of savings and credit groups. Read More »

Improvement of praziquantel, the drug of choice against schistosomiasis, is the expected outcome of a new collaboration based on open source drug development principles. Read More »

Charles George VA Medical Center has been selected as a pilot site for a new electronic data exchange enterprise that will allow veterans' health records to be accessed electronically by health care providers in 16 Western North Carolina hospitals. Read More »

How a group of bloggers is using technology to make governments more accountable and rescue operations more effective, while also fostering the ICT sector in Africa. Read More »

The Ushahidi community survey results are in! We’ve been fortunate to have people share their input and feedback to help us improve... Read More »

A recent story about how gamers solved a scientific riddle that had eluded scientists for ten years suggests that more transparent science might be better science. And this is the goal of the Open Science movement. Read More »

Perhaps the most important reason we need open government, in a world marked by so much strife, is because we acutely need to build trust. Openness can bring governments and citizens together, cultivate shared understandings, and help solve our practical problems. Read More »