Training for farmers is a key to Technoserve’s strategy in Tanzania, and forms a large part of their Coffee Initiative project. Training sessions help small-scale coffee farmers produce better quality coffee, thus helping them to secure higher prices in the international marketplace
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Africa contains some of the poorest parts of the world. But that only makes some of the continent's e-commerce accomplishments all the more impressive—and worth studying by business owners everywhere. Read More »

Rosie the Robot could finally be coming to your home. Willow Garage, a unique startup in Menlo Park, has designed a robot called the PR2 that calls to mind the Jetsons' beloved robotic housekeeper. It's still under development, but already the PR2 can fold clothes, fetch a drink from the fridge, set the table and even bake cookies. Read More »

Cloud licensing models, or cloud licensing management, should focus on the ability to move applications and data from one virtualized environment -- data centers, private clouds and public clouds -- to another. Read More »

Bruce Friedman, in a post on Lab Soft News says, "Epic has achieved a near monopoly of the (electronic health-record systems) installed in the largest U.S. hospitals." Read More »

This month, 25 students with GPS tools once considered geeky and hard to use are geocoding every home, road, footpath, drain, school, shop, water and waste collection point in a Dar es Salaam neighborhood. Read More »

I recently spoke with several reporters about Steve Jobs' impact on healthcare, thanking him for the past 15 years of innovation. In preparing for those interviews, I reviewed Steve's career milestones. Read More »

There has been much hand-wringing of late about whether the explosion of government-run app contests over the last couple of years has generated any real value for the public. Read More »

As typical, I was alerted to the fact that Tiag, the winner of the Open Source VistA custodial agent competition, has launched a website and new non-profit foundation called Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (osehra.org) Read More »

The joint electronic health record for the Veterans Affairs and Defense Departments will in effect be open source when it is complete, according to a senior VA official, who provided more details about how that will occur. VA is developing an open source track to modernize its VistA electronic health record and will incorporate the approach with DOD in the joint system. Read More »