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Weekly: Uchaguzi, Community Dev Live Meetup
Happy Week from Nairobi! We have updates about Uchaguzi and the upcoming Community Developer call. Read More »
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Weill Cornell Study Finds Measuring Quality In EHR Era 'Challenging'
A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College spotlights the need for improving quality measurement from electronic health records. Read More »
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Welcome To A Brand New PlanPhilly!
What you are looking at today is a thoroughly new, innovative PlanPhilly website that is designed to better connect the planning, design and development communities in Philadelphia through an integrated content package made up of breaking and investigative news, expert analysis and opinion, organizational and individual profiles, mapped neighborhood pages and enhanced photo and video packages. Read More »
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Welcome To Medicine Without Boundaries
Here at Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC), we’ve been dedicated to one thing for the past decade: Developing the disruptive and innovative information technology solutions necessary to facilitate a sustainable global healthcare system. Read More »
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Welcome To The Age Of Open-ish Technology
From Twitter's API and the Android OS, we live in an age when private companies reap the benefits of some openness while maintaining ultimate control. Read More »
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Welcome Xen As A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
Today we’d like to welcome Xen as the newest Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Read More »
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Welcoming The White House To Github
Yesterday, the White House open sourced its first project on Github, “We The People“, the popular e-petitions platform that powers petitions.whitehouse.gov. Read More »
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Welcoming To USAID: White House Presidential Innovation Fellows
This Thursday, the White House launched The Presidential Innovation Fellows Program (PIF), which pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in six months. Read More »
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Wellcome Joins Chorus Calling for Free Online Access to Medical Research
Wellcome Trust no longer wants to pay for medical research that ends up guarded behind a pay wall, and the U.K.'s largest private funder of medical research is considering several ways to bring a proverbial wrecking ball to such pay walls and make research papers available for free online under an open-access framework. Read More »
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Wellcome Library Funds A New Partnership To Digitise 800,000 Pages Of Mental Health Archives
Over 800,000 pages of archival material from psychiatric hospitals in the UK from the 18th to the 20th centuries will be digitised and made freely available online as part of the Wellcome Library’s ambitious digitisation programme...
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Wellcome Library Pledges Support For Knowledge Unlatched Open Access Project
Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. Read More »
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Wellcome Trust Joins 'Academic Spring' to Open Up Science
One of the world's largest funders of science is to throw its weight behind a growing campaign to break the stranglehold of academic journals and allow all research papers to be shared online. Read More »
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Wellcome Trust Supports Open Access Award Programme
The Wellcome Trust has joined with the Public Library of Science and Google to launch the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) to recognise the use of scientific research, published through open access, that has led to innovations in any field that benefit society. Read More »
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Wellcome Trust Walks The Walk On Open Access With Images Release
Already a poster child for open access in the UK scientific and medical communities, the Wellcome Trust has made another public commitment to free access to information with its announcement that: “Over 100 000 images, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements, are being made freely available through Wellcome Images.” Read More »
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Wellness Takes Hold Among Large Employers – And More Sticks Nudge Workers Toward Health
Employee benefits make up one-third of employers’ investments in workers, and companies are looking for positive ROI on that spend. Health benefits are the largest component of that spending, and are a major cost-management focus. In 2012 and beyond, wellness is taking center stage as part of employers’ total benefits strategies. Read More »
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