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Summaries of open source, health care, or health IT news and information from various sources on the web selected by Open Health News (OHNews) staff. Links are provided to the original news or information source, e.g. news article, web site, journal,blog, video, etc.

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Freedom For Scholarship In The Internet Age

Heather Morrison | The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics | December 13, 2012

Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system and alternatives, focusing on the potential of open access. [...] Read More »

Freedom Of Information Act Machine Fights Government Secrecy By Automating Transparency Requests

Billy Gallagher | TechCrunch | July 18, 2013

The Freedom of Information Act Machine, an open online platform that automates Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, launched on Kickstarter two days ago and has already surpassed its funding goal. At the time of publication, it had cleared $20,000 in funding from over 600 backers. Read More »

Freedom Of The Press Foundation Launches SecureDrop, An Open-Source Submission Platform For Whistleblowers

Trevor Timm | Boing Boing | October 15, 2013

Freedom of the Press Foundation has taken charge of the DeadDrop project, an open-source whistleblower submission system originally coded by the late transparency advocate Aaron Swartz. In the coming months, the Foundation will also provide on-site installation and technical support to news organizations that wish to run the system, which has been renamed “SecureDrop.” Read More »

Freedom, Social Support, and Motivation

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | July 24, 2013

A recent TechCrunch article by Nir Eyal suggests that many apps fail to change behavior because they feel too much like work. We want to lose weight, but the obligation to log every meal seems to rob us of autonomy much like homework does. Read More »

Freeing The Prisoners Of NASA

Michael Hiltzik | Los Angeles Times | October 7, 2013

Like the late Swartz, who campaigned for free public access to government publications and academic papers, UC Berkeley biologist Eisen is one of the genuine pioneers of open-access academic publishing. That's the notion that scientific papers should be made available free to researchers and the community at large, rather than hidden behind the expensive paywalls of profitable scientific journals. Read More »

Freematics - Vehicle Telematics With Open-Source Hardware

Stanley Huang | Kickstarter | January 19, 2014

Making it possible, accessible, and affordable to carry out vehicle telematics projects with open-source hardware and mobile gadgets Read More »

Freescale Launches $149 Android Wearables Platform

Stephen Shankland | CNET | January 7, 2014

At CES, the company announces Warp, an open-source electronics board it hopes developers will embrace for a wide range of wearable computing projects. Read More »

French Gendarmerie: "Open Source Desktop Lowers TCO By 40%"

Gijs Hillenius | European Commission (EC) | September 30, 2013

Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management. Using Ubuntu Linux massively reduces the number of local technical interventions, says Major Stéphane Dumond... Read More »

French Homeland Intelligence Threatens A Volunteer Sysop To Delete A Wikipedia Article

Press Release | Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimédia France | April 6, 2013

In early March, the DCRI (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) contacted the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization which hosts Wikipedia. They claimed that an article on the French-language Wikipedia about a French military compound contained classified military information, and demanded its immediate deletion. Read More »

French Intelligence Agency Sees Firsthand The Streisand Effect

David Perera | FierceGovernmentIT | April 8, 2013

The French government is learning firsthand about the Streisand Effect after Wikimedia France issued April 6 a press release stating that a domestic intelligence agency threatened a volunteer with arrest unless he deleted an entry about a military communications base near Lyons. Read More »

French Parliament Says Free Software Is A Priority In Education

Gijs Hillenius | European Commission (EC) | June 28, 2013

France's Senate and National Assembly agree to make free software a priority for education. This Wednesday the National Assembly confirmed a proposal by the Senate, urging institutions of higher educations to prefer this type of solution. [...] Read More »

French Radio on Open Source Technologies for Clinical Trials

Staff Writer | Clinovo | June 28, 2012

Clinovo was recently interviewed by the French radio BFM Business for l’Atelier Numerique, a weekly 2-hour broadcast dedicated to innovation and new technologies in the Silicon Valley. Marc Desgrousilliers, CTO at Clinovo and Ismael Ghalimi, CEO at Sutoiku described how open source technologies are used in the world of clinical trials. Read More »

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