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Villanova University Partners With Kuali Foundation To Develop Library Management System

Luisa Cywinski | Villanova University | August 21, 2012

The announcement of Villanova University’s partnership with the Kuali Foundation in the development of the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) was made in June at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. [...] Read More »

Visualizing The Stunning Growth Of 8 Years Of OpenStreetMap

Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities | June 10, 2013

The U.S. OpenStreetMap community gathered in San Francisco over the weekend for its annual conference, the State of the Map. The loose citizen-cartography collective has now been incrementally mapping the world since 2004... Read More »

Wanted: mHealth Startups Seeking VC And Vice Versa

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | December 2, 2013

What with so many new regulations and payment reforms driving investment in healthcare innovations, it’s not always easy for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to find each other. Yet, huge market opportunities are opening up in health IT — and perhaps nowhere more so than in mobile technologies. Read More »

We Can Work It Out: Collaboration Leads To Insights, New Targets In Epilepsy

Ron Leuty | Business Times | August 13, 2013

A little scientific cooperation goes a long way. Epilepsy researchers, who more than a decade ago forged a national collaboration, have discovered 25 new mutations around the neurological disorder. What’s more, they also uncovered two genes behind rare childhood forms of the disease... Read More »

We Cannot Do Modern Science Unless It's Open

Open is about sharing and collaboration. It's the idea that "we" is more powerful, more rewarding and fulfilling than "I". I can't promise jobs, but I do know that open is becoming very big. Governments and funders are pushing the open agenda, even though academics are generally uninterested or seriously self-interested... Read More »

We the Coders: Open-Sourcing We the People, the White House's Online Petitions System

Macon Phillips | Whitehouse.gov | August 23, 2012

I'm thrilled to announce that we are publishing the source code for We the People, the online petitions system that has been a popular way for the public to connect with the White House over the past year. Read More »

Welcome To Medicine Without Boundaries

Simon Schurr | Collaborative Medical Technology Corporation (CMTC) | July 1, 2013

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 »

Welcoming To USAID: White House Presidential Innovation Fellows

Maura O’Neill | USAID | August 24, 2012

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 »

West Africa: Five Questions - Lesley-Anne Long, mPowering Frontline Health Workers

Lesley-Anne Long | AllAfrica | November 5, 2015

Lesley-Anne Long is the global director at mPowering Frontline Health Workers, a public-private partnership that uses mobile technologies to strengthen health systems and end preventable child and maternal deaths. She spoke with us about lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak. ...

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What Can You do with Open Data?

Play a word association game and the word "open" will almost surely be followed by "source." And open source is certainly an important force for preserving user freedoms and access to computing. However, code isn't the only form of openness that's important. Open data has been discussed for at least a decade. At the OSCON conference in 2007, Tim O'Reilly kicked off a bit of a ruckus when he suggested that open data might actually be more important than open code. Open data in this context mostly referred to the ability to export the user-created "Web 2.0" data, which was becoming important at that time. Tim Bray, then at Sun Microsystems, highlighted the issue when he wrote...

What Does ‘Open Knowledge’ Have To Do With ‘Open Development’?

Linda Raftree | lindaraftree.com | June 29, 2012

The Open Knowledge Festival (OKFest) happens this September 17-22 in Helsinki, Finland with the theme Open Knowledge in Action. OKFest will explore the benefits of opening up knowledge and information, look at the ecosystems of organisations that can benefit from openness, and discuss the impact that more transparency can have in our societies. Read More »

What Is Agile Software Development?

Adam Zolyak | Segue Technologies | April 5, 2013

You may have heard the term “Agile” more frequently these days, especially in the world of IT. So what’s all the buzz about? Read More »

What Is Hackathon Culture?

"It is not who you are nor what you are, but what you do." That's the type of culture codeRIT and BrickHack are about. Race, gender, and how much you know about coding software doesn't matter; what matters is that you want to learn, and you want to better yourself and the world. CodeRIT is a club out of the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where students can teach and learn from peers about any aspect of software development. Talks about software are every Wednesday at 8PM and are followed by fun interactive activities that make you laugh. We also have hack nights every Friday evening at 8PM, for community-building and tech projects. Also, sometimes we have cool friends who make lemon bars...

What Is Moving National Health Information Exchange Forward?

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | February 3, 2014

[...] The eHealth Exchange (née the Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange) has come a long way from its earliest beginnings as an initiative spurred on by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to recent developments which saw it spun off into its own public-private partnership run by Healtheway. Read More »

What Is Open Source Hardware?

Staff Writer | YouTube | October 1, 2012

This video describes the attributes of open source hardware to the general public. This video is officially released by the Open Source Hardware Association. Please share this video! Read More »