Veterans today can go to a secure government website and print copies or download digital files of their available personal health data, providing them with instant access to critical information and promoting personal management of their own health care. Read More »

We’ve been experimenting with a time-tracking service called Toggl, which lets you manage a team and assign common projects and tags so that you can monitor time spent on the same tasks by different people. Read More »

Crisis mapping came to prominence during the Haitian earthquake, when the technology proved vitally useful to rescue efforts. But Chamales notes that the current trend is to deploy crisis mapping tools in difficult political situations. "The problem is that natural disasters don't shoot back," he says. Read More »

With three open-source platforms working to crowdsource and map people’s insights, Ushahidi – a two time Knight News Challenge winner - has quickly grown from one project in Kenya to uses in 132 countries around the world. Read More »

Late last month, Internews and their local partner Nai Mediawatch launched a new website that shows incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan. Data.nai.org.af charts attacks on the media onto an interactive map of Afghanistan, embedded below.

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Prof. Richard Ilson thinks the traditional software engineering course is broken, its blueprints horribly outdated. Working on large software development projects is more complicated than most people think, he said, and teaching students to do it with textbooks alone just doesn't prepare them for professional positions. Read More »

I get questions from students and career changers who want to enter the healthcare IT field routinely and I enjoy replying privately to help out where I can. One question I received a few days ago is especially common so I thought I’d provide an answer publicly. Read More »

Open science is a way of conducting science where anyone can participate and all ideas and data are freely available...We’re doing it, and are on the verge of starting up something in open source drug discovery. The process brings up an important question. Read More »

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India’s largest group of publicly funded research laboratories, has hired AstraZeneca India’s research and development (R&D) head, T. Balganesh, to head its open-source drug discovery (OSDD) project. Read More »

...First order of business: learning to talk. Where do the smartest people in the open source world hang out, and how can your 18-year-old students rub elbows with them on a level playing field? Read More »