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'Rockstar' Innovators Descend on Washington
A dream team of innovators have descended on Washington, D.C., where they spend six months within the federal government to work on initiatives to support entrepreneurs, small businesses and the overall economy. Read More »
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'The Entrepreneurial State': Apple Didn't Build Your iPhone; Your Taxes Did
Is government debt slowing economic growth, if not impeding it? The world-wide economic crisis that began in 2007 has kept that question alive, despite the fact that it was private debt that caused the crisis in the first place. But attempts to curb the crisis have also led to an explosion of public sector expenditures like bank bailouts and unemployment insurance that have ballooned debt levels. [...] Read More »
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10 Charts That Explain Why A Slave May Well Have Caught The Shrimp On Your Grill This Summer
If you’re a seafood eater in North America, Japan, or Europe, chances are good that someone endured torture, beatings, sleep deprivation and wage-theft to bring you your shrimp cocktail. That’s the upshot of a harrowing must-read Guardian piece on the rampant abuses in Thailand’s fishing export trade (an issue we’ve reported on in the past). [...] Read More »
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A Capitalist’s Dilemma, Whoever Wins On Tuesday
WHATEVER happens on Election Day, Americans will keep asking the same question: When will this economy get better? Read More »
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A Lesson In Interoperability With Malcolm Gladwell
On Feb. 6 at the HCI-DC 2014 in Washington, D.C.—a public conference co-hosted by the Gary and Mary West Health Institute (WHI) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)—Malcolm Gladwell, journalist, bestselling author, and speaker, gave three lessons in culture, framing and consequence in relation to interoperability in healthcare. Read More »
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Africa And LTE #2: Leapfrogging Fixed Broadband
While the West goes about the expensive process of replacing old systems with new ones, Africa is skipping straight to the latest technology. Read More »
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Africa's Mineral Wealth Hardly Denting Poverty Levels, Says World Bank
Report finds discovery of oil and mineral resources doing little to improve prospects for poor people, whose lot may even worsen Read More »
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America Needs $8 Trillion Worth Of Infrastructure Over The Next Two Decades—And China Could Help
America needs at least $8.2 trillion to keep energy, water and transportation infrastructure in a good state of repair between now and 2030, according to a new report by the US Chamber of Commerce. The best way to cover that gargantuan expense? Investment from China. Read More »
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America's Forgotten Civil Right - Healthcare
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” It’s often referred to as the Great March on Washington – or just simply the March on Washington... Read More »
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Americans Can’t Handle The Truth
David Stockman’s new book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, is getting a lot of attention these days. I recommend you don’t buy it. It’s much better to ignore the book and continue to listen to the White House and Wall Street, both of which tell us everything will work out just fine. Read More »
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Are You Ready to Be The Agency Of The Future? GovLoop's Latest Report Explores Open Source Technology
[...] Crowdsourced services are changing our social fabric and altering how we share knowledge. As a result, we must ask ourselves this question: If we are so committed to the power of sharing in our private lives, why not do the same with software in our agencies? Read More »
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BRISSKit: Connecting Researchers With Clinical Data
The UK government is starting to recognise the value of data to the economy and is developing policy that aims to realise that worth. One of the largest and, potentially, most useful repositories of information in the country is the NHS, housing vast quantities of patient data with myriad applications. [...] Read More »
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Building-Blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government
Today marks three months since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5) – as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. Read More »
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Can This Nonprofit Destroy Apple's iOS And Google's Android?
Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the popular Firefox browser, wants to disrupt the smartphone industry. It recently released the first update to Firefox OS, its open-source mobile-operating system. Read More »
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Cantaloupe vs. al-Qaeda: What's More Dangerous?
[An important revelation] is the exposure of a nearly lunatic disproportion in threat assessment and spending by the US government. This disproportion has been spawned by a fear-based politics of terror that mandates unlimited money and media attention for even the most tendentious terrorism threats, while lethal domestic risks such as contaminated food from our industrialized agribusiness system are all but ignored Read More »
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