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Kenya’s BRCK Launch Delayed Until Next Year
Kenyan technology firm Ushahidi has pushed back the release date of BRCK, an internet device designed by Kenyan technology company Ushahidi to keep people connected to the internet during network downtime, until the first quarter of 2014. Read More »
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Kenya’s Kuhonga Fighting Corruption Using The Ushahidi Platform
Kuhonga, an anti-corruption mapping platform, seeks to address the question “how can we crush corruption in Africa?” by using data and maps to track activity related to corruption. Read More »
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Kenya’s Ushahidi Brings Tech Help Where It’s Needed Most
“If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere.” It’s something that’s occasionally said about the mobile market on the continent. And it’s something that Juliana Rotich has lived as the head of Ushahidi... Read More »
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Kenya’s Ushahidi To Be Redesigned
The process of redesigning Ushahidi platform, a mobile app enabling users to crowdsource crisis information, is currently on track. The new platform, Ushahidi v3, will be a complete redesign of Ushahidi’s core platform with the front-end set to be more mobile web-focused. Read More »
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Key Architect of VA’s Open Source Strategy Elected Chairman of the Board of OSEHRA
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA) announced today that Mike O’Neill, CEO of MedicaSoft, has been elected Chairman of the OSEHRA Board of Directors. O’Neill, an architect of VA’s open source strategy and a thought leader in the open source community, has served several years on the Board and was most recently re-elected in September 2015 as a representative of OSEHRA’s Organizational Members. He assumed the Chairmanship on October 6. “It is an honor to be chosen for this role,” said O’Neill. “This is an exciting time for OSEHRA, with the new Federal Government policy on open source reaffirming our mission and impact.”
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Key Lawmaker Wants To Ban VA Bonuses For Five Years
The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee proposed legislation that would ban all bonuses for senior executives in the Veterans Affairs Department for the next five years. The move by Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., is in response to VA’s disability claims backlog and patient deaths in VA hospitals. Read More »
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Key Lesson from the NPfIT
Listening to critics is critical to the success of big projects. But has this lesson been learnt? Read More »
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Kicking Conflict Into Touch: How Sport And Technology Unite Community And Conservation In Kenya
Football has long been recognised as a unifying sport, with the ability to bring sides together in some of the most trying of circumstances. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Njenga Kahiro shares his very personal experience of how a combination of football and text messaging have successfully brought together warring communities to promote conservation in Kenya. Read More »
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Kicking Conflict into Touch: How Sport and Technology Unite Community and Conservation in Kenya
Football has long been recognised as a unifying sport, with the ability to bring sides together in some of the most trying of circumstances. In this installment of Digital Diversity, Njenga Kahiro shares his very personal experience of how a combination of football and text messaging have successfully brought together warring communities to promote conservation in Kenya.
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Kickstarter Doesn't Do Healthcare, MedStartr Seizes Opportunity
MedStartr is a new way to fund healthcare initiatives—think Kickstarter for doctors, patients, and what ails them. It's headed up by Mike Pence and Alex Fair, two guys of different backgrounds and expertise who've come together to share the same dream and passion for helping those in physical need. Read More »
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Kickstarting An Open Source Hardware "Machine Shop In A Box" - 3D Printer/Etcher/Mill
"How do you improve upon 3D printers with multiple color heads? Members of the makerspace Artisan's Asylum have built what they're calling a 'microfactory' - a self-contained machine that etches circuitry, mills, and 3d-prints multi-color objects. Their kickstarter is only a week in, but they're going to need a lot of help if they're going to reach their very ambitious goal." Read More »
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Kickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding For Scientific Research
Popularized by such sites as Kickstarter, crowdfunding has become a main source of financial support for entrepreneurs with ideas ranging from clothing lines to social media. Unfortunately, Kickstarter prohibits projects for health and medicine, making the site useless for academic researchers. To fill this gap, Petridish, iAMscientist and MedStartr have come online in the past 6 months...
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Kill [This] Bill in Congress: The Research Works Act
Academic scholars and patient advocacy groups realized that valuable research findings — already paid for by U.S. taxpayers — were effectively being hidden from the very taxpayers who had actually PAID for this research, and what's more, keeping the findings hidden was not advancing the fields of research as intended. So a number of groups began lobbying lawmakers for more "open access" to this research. Federally-funded biomedical research [in PubMed Central] could be accessed via the U.S. National Library of Medicine, which is funded by National Institutes of Health using a link in PubMed.
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King's Rolls Out Wardware
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out an open source nursing observations system, Wardware, to 12 wards. Read More »
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize In Innovate Health Tech
Kinsa Smart Thermometer was announced today as the $25k grand prize winner in Innovate Health Tech NYC, a competition designed to promote innovation within NYC’s health technology sector... Read More »
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