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Open Access Week 2014
What do brain machine interfaces and Open Science have in common? They are two examples of concepts that I never thought I would get to see materialised in my lifetime. I was wrong. Read More »
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Open Affairs TV at HIMSS 12
The crew at Open Affairs TV is at HIMSS12 in Las Vegas! But wait, isn’t HIMSS all about silos and proprietary systems? Not quite. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a surge of collaborative platforms popping up across the HIMSS agendas and exhibit halls. Health Information Exchanges are the topic of many-a-session, focusing on standards, implementation and collaboration. Read More »
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Open Chemistry Project Upholds Mission of Unorganization, The Blue Obelisk
Chemistry is not the most open field of scientific endeavor; in fact, as I began working more in the area (coming from a background in physics), I was surprised with the norms in the field. As a PhD student way back in 2003, I simply wanted to draw a 3D molecular structure on my operating system of choice (Linux), and be able to save an image for a paper/poster discussing my research. This proved to be nearly impossible, and in 2005 a group of like-minded researchers got together at a meeting of the American Chemical Society and formed an unorganization: The Blue Obelisk (named after their meeting place in San Diego)...
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Open Compute: The Perks Of Converged Infrastructure, No Proprietary B.S. | #OCPSummit
The fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit took place on January 28 and 29 in San Jose, California. Day one kicked off with Frank Frankovsky’s opening remarks. The Chairman and President of OCP Foundation presented the “Open Compute Project: 2014 and Beyond”, explaining to the audience what the event is going to focus on and what to expect from the following speakers. Read More »
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Open Content at the Getty: Three Years Later, Some Lessons Learned
Three years ago this week the Getty announced the launch of our Open Content Program, making available 4,600 high-resolution images from the Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute collections for anyone to use, modify, and publish anywhere for any purpose. In his announcement, our president Jim Cuno hinted that more content would be made freely available for reuse in the months to follow, including digital publications and other knowledge resources...
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Open Government Partnership Celebrates Open Innovation in Africa
As diverse delegates gather in Cape Town this week for the OGP regional meeting, we reflect on open innovation, ODI projects and promising initiatives in the continent. This week, South Africa hosts the third Open Government Partnership (OGP) Africa Regional Meeting 2016. The two-day event brings together a wide range of delegates from African governments and civil society, startups and international organisations. It offers a platform to share lessons from programmes across the continent, with a particular focus on promoting sustainable development...
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Open Health Tools, HIMSS to Collaborate on Open Source Standards
Open Health Tools, a multi-stakeholder group of open source advocates, has partnered with HIMSS to help spur the development of open source technology in healthcare.
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Open Innovation at the Open Source Junction
Over the last couple of years OSS Watch has run a series of three events called the Open Source Junction (OSJ). These events aimed to bring together academia and the commercial sector to foster communication, collaboration and open innovation... Read More »
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Open Innovation Is Good for Business
Open innovation is an area only beginning to enter mainstream enterprises, despite years of success in open source communities. It allows people both inside and outside the company to get involved and collaborate on new products and processes that result in beneficial change.
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Open Innovation Works in the Public Sector, Say Federal CTOs
On his last day at the White House, Chopra released an "open innovator's toolkit" that highlights twenty different case studies in how he, his staff and his fellow chief technology officers at federal agencies have been trying to stimulate innovation in government.
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Open Innovation—The Passion Behind the Civic Commons Community
From the beginning, Civic Commons has been a dynamic community initiative. Read More »
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Open Is the Solution to Improving 21st Century Education
Much of the Internet runs Linux and open source software, yet in most of our schools—whether PK-12 or higher education—Linux and open source software are given short shrift. Linux has made serious inroads on hand-held devices, the desktop, and the Internet of things (IoT) that use platforms such as Raspberry Pi, Galileo, and Arduino. Despite this astounding growth, a relatively small number of secondary and post-secondary schools offer technology training that prepares students for increasingly in-demand technical skills. The growth of the maker movement and the concurrent interest in STEM skills, which include coding and ethical hacking, may provide a much-needed impetus to change this trend. The problem for most schools is finding the mentors and exemplars of this paradigm...
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Open Learning Through Open Source Development
Singapore Polytechnic (SP) has included open source software development into its curriculum, partnering with Red Hat to provide scholarships, internships, certification, and competitions to its Diploma students. Ng Weng Lam, Director, School of electrical and Electronic Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic explains how open source education benefits students. Read More »
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Open Library Foundation Established
The Open Library Foundation has been established to promote open source projects for libraries and to foster and support contribution, distribution, and sustainability of the benefits of these projects. The foundation provides the infrastructure for librarians, developers, designers, service providers, and vendors to collaborate with innovative open source technologies and develop transformative solutions for libraries...
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Open or Complete?
For the last five years I have been trying to understand the tension between enterprise or proprietary development and open source development. A prominent example has been the competition between the iPhone and the Android operating system... Read More »
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