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The Open API Universe At NASA
NASA has a LOT of interesting data. NASA’s commitment to open data expands the audience for the vast body of knowledge captured in nearly 100 years of U.S. aeronautics and space data....One way that NASA data can be made more available online is through an “application programming interface” or API. Read More »
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The Open Data Effect: Creating Optimistic Radicals At OKFest
I am Stephen Davenport, Director of Innovation at Development Gateway, and recently I attended my first Open Knowledge event, the OKFestival in Helsinki Finland. Read More »
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The Open Hardware Summit: The Future of Manufacturing Is Sharing
The Open Hardware Summit was held for the third time last Thursday in New York in advance of World Maker Faire in nearby Queens. This is the first year that it was held by the relatively new Open Source Hardware Association, which is now accepting members. Read More »
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The Open Health Information Mediator (OpenHIM) - Ready to orchestrate!
The OpenHIM has been released as open source today, after months of hard work and development time spent by Jembi Health Systems developer team...The main aim of the OpenHIM is to manage the orchestration of all transactions to other services and enable interoperability between all components within the Rwandan Health Information Exchange (RHIE).
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The Open Medicine Foundation Awarded Grant From The VMware Foundation To Accelerate Development Of Patient-Centric Health Care Model
The Open Medicine Institute (OMI), an organization with a mission to improve health care by applying a multi-disciplinary, "big data" approach, today announced that the Open Medicine Foundation (nonprofit 501(c)(3)), has been awarded a grant from the VMware Foundation. Read More »
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The Open Medicine Institute Launches Novel Bioinformatics-Healthcare Research Platform with Support from Leading High-Technology Companies
The Open Medicine Institute (OMI), an organization with a mission to improve health care by applying a multi-disciplinary, "big data" approach, today rolled out its novel OpenMedNet platform designed to improve healthcare. This integrated healthcare model represents a new approach that many experts believe will improve the outlook for patients especially those suffering from prevalent but complex diseases such as Autism, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme, certain cancers and others that have evaded characterization. Read More »
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The Open Medicine Institute: Big Plans And A Sense Of Urgency
Imagine that you’ve just been put in charge of the world’s ME/CFS research – yes, you – and you’ve got to decide what research you want. Come on, hurry up! Read More »
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The Open Source Initiative Took the Next Step in Its Evolution This Past Weekend.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board meet this weekend in San Francisco for its annual face-to-face meeting. Since its inception, OSI's role has been one of stewardship of the Open Source Definition supported by community volunteers reviewing licenses. For that mission, the Board has been a self-selecting one, with the current Board evaluating nominations and electing its own successors. But it's gradually become obvious that the OSI needs to look beyond that role to act instead as a meeting point for the global open source communities at large. As you ma yrecall, that switch was exactly the one I joined the Board to assist, following earlier unsuccessful attempts.
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The Open Source Paradigm - Part I
Harish Pillay, Head, Community Architecture & Leadership, Red Hat, talks about the advantages of the open source approach and the passion and the rigour that drive the open source community. Read More »
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The Open Source Paradigm - Part II
Harish Pillay from Red Hat continues on how the support system and programming ecosystem of open source is ideal in providing solutions and services for the public sector. Read More »
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The Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) Is Booting Up
Open source robotics platforms have flourished, but they've also been fragmented, with software and hardware designs produced all around the world that have little to do with each other. That's why it's so promising that the folks behind Willow Garage--a robotics project that originated at Stanford University--have announced the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). Read More »
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The Open Source Solution To The Bee Colony Collapse Problem
Last year, a third of honeybee colonies in the United States quite literally vanished. Commercial honey operations, previously abuzz with many thousands of bees, fell suddenly silent, leaving scientists and beekeepers alike scratching their heads. The reasons remain mostly a mystery for what is called Colony Collapse Disorder—a disturbing development of the drying up of beehives throughout the industrialised world. Read More »
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The Open-Source Answer to Big Data
Open-source source platforms for big data have exploded in popularity. And in the past few months, it seems like nearly everyone is feeling the fallout. Read More »
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The Open-Source Seed Movement In Wisconsin
Farmers have traditionally gathered and saved seeds from one growing season to plant in the next. But this age-old tradition is being threatened by corporations that are increasingly restricting access to seeds through patents. Read More »
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The OpenID Foundation Launches The OpenID Connect Standard
The OpenID Foundation announced today that its membership has ratified the OpenID Connect standard. Organizations and businesses can now use OpenID Connect to develop secure, flexible, and interoperable identity Internet ecosystems so that digital identities can be easily used across websites and applications via any computing or mobile device. Read More »
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