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Healthcare Via Shipping Containers?
Why not? Being classified as prefabricated structures, containers avoid the regulatory hassles associated with floor area rules or land-use agreements that arise in setting up physical infrastructure. Minimalist in design, it can be transported through rail and used in the remotest corner of the country. Read More »
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HealthCare.gov Needs Less Tech, More Jugaad
Operators of the beleaguered HealthCare.gov website could take a few hints from Hindu lore and eastern philosophy to fix things, according to two of the architects of the world's most massive national ID system. Read More »
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How "Open Source" Seed Producers from the U.S. to India Are Changing Global Food Production
Frank Morton has been breeding lettuce since the 1980s. His company offers 114 varieties, among them Outredgeous, which last year became the first plant that NASA astronauts grew and ate in space. For nearly 20 years, Morton’s work was limited only by his imagination and by how many different kinds of lettuce he could get his hands on. But in the early 2000s, he started noticing more and more lettuces were patented, meaning he would not be able to use them for breeding...
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How High Tech Is Helping Bring Clean Water To India
Anand Shah runs a company that is using solar-powered “water ATMs” to bring clean water to remote villages in India. In an e360 interview, Shah talks about how his company is using a high-tech approach to address one of India’s most intractable public health issues. Read More »
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How Open Access Content Helps Fuel Growth in Indian-Language Wikipedias
Mobile Internet connectivity is growing rapidly in rural India, and because most Internet users are more comfortable in their native languages, websites producing content in Indian languages are going to drive this growth. In a country like India in which only a handful of journals are available in Indian languages, open access to research and educational resources is hugely important for populating content for the various Indian language Wikipedias...
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How The US Is Bullying El Salvador Into Using Monsanto's GMO Seeds
...We were honored guests at the inauguration of Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren and Vice President Oscar Ortiz. Both the incoming President and Vice President had been Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) military commanders during the civil war...
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IBM & Ponemon Institute Study: Data Breach Costs Rising, Now $4 million per Incident
IBM Security today announced the results of a global study analyzing the financial impact of data breaches to a company's bottom line. Sponsored by IBM and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, the study found that the average cost of a data breach for companies surveyed has grown to $4 million, representing a 29 percent increase since 2013...
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IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It’s Nowhere Close
It was an audacious undertaking, even for one of the most storied American companies: With a single machine, IBM would tackle humanity’s most vexing diseases and revolutionize medicine. Breathlessly promoting its signature brand — Watson — IBM sought to capture the world’s imagination, and it quickly zeroed in on a high-profile target: cancer. But three years after IBM began selling Watson to recommend the best cancer treatments to doctors around the world, a STAT investigation has found that the supercomputer isn’t living up to the lofty expectations IBM created for it. It is still struggling with the basic step of learning about different forms of cancer...
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Ignou Makes Its Course Contents Open Education Resource For Free Online Access
A doctor who is wants to know about building bridges now just needs to visit Ignou's website. Not only is its own 29 lakh students, Indira Gandhi National Open University's open education resource is expected to benefit lakhs of civil service aspirants and knowledge seekers... Read More »
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In Defence Of Open Access Systems
LESLIE CHAN, champion of the Open Access Initiative, tells G. MAHADEVAN that the traditional journals will lose the battle to Open Access publications. Read More »
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India Adopts A Comprehensive Open Source Policy
The Government of India (GOI) has adopted a comprehensive and supportive open source policy. It builds on their earlier efforts to adopt open standards for procurement. As we've seen in other regions, the adoption of such policies often brings out concerns from some quarters who want to spread 'fear and doubt' about the policy. So, what are the facts about the policy, and how does it fit into India's broader economic development strategy? Read More »
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India has the second largest enrollment in Online Education in the world
edX’s open source platform has become a favoured massive online open course (MOOC) destination for students from India. Read More »
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India Is Quite Capable Of Sending A Rocket To Mars And Fighting Poverty At The Same Time
This morning, India successfully launched a rocket to Mars. Christened Mangalyaan, or Mars vehicle, the rocket is part of a scientific mission that cost a grand total of Rs 4.5 billion, or $73 million. In terms of the space business, that’s a bargain. By contrast, NASA’s next Mars mission will cost $671 million and do the same thing as India’s craft: orbit the red planet collecting data. Read More »
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India Retail: Nationalist Ministers Say Wal-Mart's DC Lobbying Amounts To Bribery
New rules allowing transnational multibrand retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to set up shop in some of India’s larger cities have been facing steep criticism from the conservative-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s second-largest party. Read More »
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India Rising
At the Indian Science Congress last month, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to hike R&D expenditures from around $3 billion last year to $8 billion in 2017. The windfall is meant to turbocharge initiatives to create elite research institutions, bring expatriate Indian scientists home, enrich science education, and equip smart new laboratories. Read More »
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