Do you ever wish your kids would do something besides play video games on the computer? What if you could get a head start teaching them to be the next generation of open source developers? Read More »

CapacityPlus’s HRH Global Resource Center recently announced the launch of its eLearning program. The GRC will now offer free courses developed by technical experts in the fields of HRH, health informatics, and health service delivery to build the capacity of country-based users in critical skills development. Read More »

During our Free vs. Paid Business Models webcast, we had a lot of questions from the audience—more than our guests had time to answer. Nicolas Pujol generously took a few more minutes of his time to answer these followups. Read More »

Making money from “open source’’ software - computer programs available free of charge - once seemed crazy. But Red Hat Inc. has prospered by selling service and support for open source programs such as the Linux operating system... Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s president of products and technologies, spoke with Hiawatha Bray of the Globe staff about how his company brought open source into the mainstream. Read More »

The concept of Open Bibliography in science, technology and medicine (STM) is introduced as a combination of Open Source tools, Open specifications and Open bibliographic data. An Openly searchable and navigable network of bibliographic information and associated knowledge representations, a Bibliographic Knowledge Network, across all branches of Science, Technology and Medicine, has been designed and initiated. Read More »

With more and more civic data becoming available and accessible, the challenge grows for policy makers and citizens to leverage that data for better decision-making. It is often difficult to understand context and perform analysis. “Weave”, however, helps. A web-based data visualization tool, Weave enables users to explore, analyze, visualize and disseminate data online from any location at any time. Read More »

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected The Informatics Applications Group to design and establish the custodial agent that will act as the open-source community's central governing body updating the use of VistA (Veterans Integrated System Technology Architecture), the VA's electronic health record (EHR). Read More »

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has contracted with CGI Federal Inc. to upgrade the federally funded software. The contract is worth $5.7 million in the first year, with possible one-year renewals. CGI will partner with Red Hat, best known for its Linux open-source operating system, which suggests that CGI will look for outside developers to help fix and enhance CONNECT. Read More »

Only 40 percent of the Social Security Administration's retirement claims are processed online. With an increase in retirees looming, SSA hopes a mobile application aimed squarely at the heartstrings will raise the profile of its website--and in turn, shift claims processing from SSA field offices and phone services to the web. Read More »

As soon as the Environmental Protection Agency decided it would begin developing public-facing mobile applications, Dalroy Ward, senior technology advisor at EPA's office of information analysis and access, made a visit to the agency's ethics officer. Read More »