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Product Team Releases Kujua, A New Tool For Global Health
We are excited to release KujuaLite, an open-source communication and information hub for clinics. Medic Mobile has deployed KujuaLite for over a year in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and we are ready to share this tool with the world. Read More »
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Professional Engineers And Hobbyists Will Increase Reliance On Open Source Hardware And Software In 2013, According To Element14 Study
Study unveils high level of crossover between hobbyists and professional engineers in use of dev kits and open source hardware and software Read More »
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Profound Open Sources UI Tool Framework
Profound Logic has open sourced its User Interface application development tool framework citing user and developer flexibility among its key reasons for doing so. Profound UI version 4.5 will now also benefit from improved integration between the IBM i and other compatible platforms. Read More »
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Program Chief: Software Problems Could Delay F-35’s Delivery Beyond 2017
Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, program executive officer for the $397 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, told Senate lawmakers yesterday he has concerns that software development challenges could further delay delivery of combat ready aircraft slated to complete final testing by 2019. Read More »
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Programmers Volunteer To Help Fix Government’s Healthcare Website
If there’s one thing programmers hate, it’s a broken website paired with a terrible user experience. It runs contrary to everything geeks, nerds and their ilk believe in, and often, their first instinct is to probe into the code, see what’s wrong and propose a suggestion. Read More »
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Progress In Health Care Is Still 'Excruciatingly Slow' Says Harvard Expert
I had the opportunity to interview one of the nation’s foremost experts on pay-for-performance and health care quality measurement, Harvard professor Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH. His entertaining and insightful blog “An Ounce of Evidence“ tops my bookmarks. He’s known in the business community for his forceful candor on the need for much more transparency and better payment systems in health care. [...] Read More »
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Project Activate - Ushahidi Comes To Town
As part of the Guardian's second Project Activate initiative we open up our doors and our minds to the crisis crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi for a week of creative and technological collaboration Read More »
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Project Floodlight Grows To The World’s Largest SDN Ecosystem; Global Users, Contributors And Partners Innovating Using Open Source SDN
Big Switch Networks today announced that Project Floodlight has grown to be the world’s largest open source SDN community, already encompassing over 200,000 lines of code, 15,000 downloads of the Floodlight controller, and contains contributions from more than 10 ecosystem institutions and vendors around the world. Read More »
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ProjectLibre Edges In On Microsoft Project Dominance
ProjectLibre is an open source project management solution ready to give Microsoft Project a run for their money. Read More »
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Prometheus Research Announces $1M in Expanded Funding From Public and Private Sectors, Sees Broader Applications for Their Integrated Registry Platform
Prometheus Research announced today they have received nearly $1M in additional support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and health-focused private philanthropies for their work developing open-source integrated registry software and related clinical research informatics data standards. Building on the success of their Phase I SBIR award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), two new NIH awards provide significant additional funding for enhancing Prometheus' Research Exchange Database (RexDB®) platform with features required in interventional research.
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Prometheus Research Awarded $700,000 NIH SBIR Grant To Improve Open Source Tools For Autism Research
Prometheus Research, an integrated data management services provider, announced today that it has been awarded $700,000 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to extend its Open Source Research Exchange Database (RexDB) for the management of autism spectrum disorders research. Read More »
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Prominent Critic Of Patent System To Join The White House
Santa Clara law professor Colleen Chien, who has published research that questions the economic justification for patent trolling, will advise the Obama Administration’s Chief Technology Officer. Read More »
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Promoting Earthquake Readiness
In Oregon, Washington State and California, an early warning system helps citizens and officials better prepare for and respond to earthquakes. In the early morning hours on August 24, 2014, scientists at UC Berkeley received a “ShakeAlert” – an alarm providing warning of a pending earthquake. Five seconds later, the city of Napa felt a magnitude 6.0 earthquake. That five-second warning was an early success for a broader goal: the creation of an earthquake early warning system that can communicate the size, extent and timing of imminent earthquakes on the West Coast...
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Promoting Shared Hardware Design
Now is the time to move open-source hardware development into basic research labs. Read More »
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Promoting Transparency And Open Development In Land Governance
Since its inception, the International Land Coalition has been promoting transparency and accountability in land-related processes through a number of projects such as the Land Reporting Initiative, the CPL project, the Land Portal, the Land Observatory and the Land Matrix initiative. [...] Read More »
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