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Girls Code in India to Tackle Challenges of Slum Living
Adolescent girls in the Mumbai slum of Dharavi are battling the daily challenges they face, one mobile app at a time. Tutored on laptops donated by friends of Nawneet Ranjan, a filmmaker who set up a charity in Dharavi, the girls are embracing technology to confront issues ranging from their safety to garbage in the sprawling slum in India's biggest city. "Girls and women suffer the most in a slum, as they often have no resources and are not aware of their rights," said Ranjan, who studied filmmaking in the United States before returning to Mumbai...
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GitHub Finally Takes Open Source Licenses Seriously
The Internet's favorite source code host responds to criticism that it's failing its users over licensing Read More »
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GitHub Improves Open-Source Licensing Polices
GitHub, the popular open-source development community site, is finally getting its licensing act together. It's high time since Black Duck has found that 77-percent of GitHub projects have no declared open-source license. Read More »
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GitHub Is Helping Companies Work Together By Crowdsourcing Software
Even GitHub uses GitHub: Co-founder and CEO Tom Preston-Werner recently experienced in a very meta way the power of his online hosting service for software-development projects (and the largest open-source community around). [...] Read More »
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Github To White House: Open Source Your HealthCare.gov Code And Let Us Help
Healthcare.gov has been referred to by the national press as “excruciatingly embarrassing,” “a poster child for the federal government’s technical ineptitude,” and “a mess.” [...] Silicon Valley’s technology entrepreneurs have described in recent interviews how they would have approached the project differently from the start. Read More »
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GitHub's Wild West Approach To Licensing Has Hidden Costs
The GitHub generation doesn't seem to like the bother of licenses, but is it prepared to stomach the costs? Read More »
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GitHub: How An Open Source Programming Tool With A Funny Name Could Help Revolutionize Medical Research
Most people I work with in medicine have never heard of GitHub . For the unfamiliar, GitHub is an online repository, which is an essential tool used by computer programmers to store their programming code. It has a number of virtues, including giving users the ability to track multiple versions of their code... Read More »
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Give Us Our Damn Lab Results!!
Two years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services released proposed regulations that would allow patients to obtain their clinical lab test results directly from the lab, rather than having to wait to receive the results from their health care provider. CDT and other consumer groups enthusiastically supported this proposed rule at the time of its release. Read More »
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Given Tablets But No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves
With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. Read More »
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Giving Patients A Role In Data Exchange
A pilot program at the University of Texas at Austin seeks to find the right processes for enabling patients to track who requests and receives their protected health information. Read More »
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Glaser: Healthcare Is Amid Fifth IT Revolution
When Siemens Health Services CEO John Glaser’s daughter graduated from medical school this past weekend, it was a proud day for her and for him. [...] Read More »
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Glaucoma Clinics Run On Moorfields App
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has developed an app to run virtual glaucoma clinics. Read More »
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Global 3D Printed Medical Devices Market Revenue to Grow
Future Market Insights delivers key insights on the global 3D printed medical devices market in a publication titled “3D Printed Medical Devices Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment, 2016 – 2026.” The global 3D printed medical devices market was estimated to be $238 million in 2015 and it has a wide scope of growth in the forecast period. The global 3D printed medical devices market can be broadly classified into six segments depending on the technology namely – stereolithography (SLA), selective layer sintering (SLS), digital light processing (DLP), fused deposition modelling (FDM), polyjet / inkjet 3D printing, and electronic beam melting (EBM) – each with different applications that are specific to orthopaedic, dental, and internal and external prosthetics...
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Global Alliance Formed To Create Framework For Genomic Data Sharing
More than 70 major research and healthcare organizations from 41 countries have signed a letter of intent to create a framework for sharing genomic data worldwide, posted at the Broad Institute's website... Read More »
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Global Brands Select ForgeRock's Open Identity Stack To Protect Enterprise, Cloud, Social, And Mobile Applications
ForgeRock Inc., the pioneer of open source Identity and Access Management (IAM), today announced availability of the first and only unified, 100% Open Source Stack to secure applications and services across enterprise, cloud, social and mobile environments. Read More »
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