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Italian Genoa To Use Open Source 'Wherever Possible'
The Italian city of Genoa is increasing its use of free and open source software, aiming to reduce its dependency on IT vendors. "The Municipality will favour the use of free software or open source, wherever possible", Genoa announced last week Friday. Read More »
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Italy's South Tyrol Starts Three-Year LibreOffice Migration
The government of Italy's South Tyrol province this morning announced a plan to implement LibreOffice, a free and open source suite of office productivity tools, in all of its public administrations, including municipal administration and healthcare organisations, during the next three years. [...] Read More »
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JKool LLC. Announces An Easy-To-Use, Open Source, SaaS Solution For Quickly Capturing The Business Value Of Big Data
jKool, LLC. today announced its new, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for analyzing Big Data in real time. jKool™ is designed to spot the patterns in data that lead to actionable insights...
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Just Four Companies Will Produce The Microchips On Which The Global Economy Depends
Making advanced microchips has always been hard. But it’s now so difficult that the number of companies with the knowledge and cash to do it is about to shrink to precisely four. Read More »
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Kenya’s Silicon Savannah Spurs Tech in Sub-Saharan Africa
The role of technology in sub-Saharan Africa is growing. An emerging information technology (IT) ecosystem is reinforcing regional trends in business, investment, and modernization. There is a growing patchwork of entrepreneurs, startups, and innovation centers coalescing from country to country. Most discussions of the origins of Africa’s tech movement circle back to Kenya, which was home to several major technological innovations between 2007 and 2010. This innovation inspired the country’s Silicon Savannah moniker, and has provided an example for other African countries to follow.
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Launch Of Connect 4.0 – An HIE Advancement Driven By Federal Collaboration
I am excited to announce that today, February 11, 2012, we are releasing CONNECT version 4.0, which supports the current federal IT standards and Meaningful Use Stage 2 core objectives related to the secure electronic exchange of information. Read More »
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Lawmakers Grill Federal CIO On Data Center Figures
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel, speaking before a House subcommittee Thursday, defended the Office of Management and Budget's sudden acknowledgement that the number of federal data centers now totaled more than 7,000, more than twice the number that had been reported as recently as May. Read More »
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Learning From Healthcare.gov: 4 Lessons In Choosing A IT Vendor
The vendor chosen in a no-bid process to build Healthcare.gov was fired from a similar project after missing deadlines and suffering security lapses for three years. Such obvious mistakes are unfortunately all too common in the private and public sector. Here are four simple ways to make sure you choose the right vendor for your IT project. Read More »
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Many CIOs Support IT Reform Legislation
Many government chief information officers think a proposed congressional overhaul that would give them broader authority over how their agencies buy information technology is a “step in the right direction,” according to TechAmerica’s CIO Insights survey released Thursday. Read More »
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March 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Lluis Martinez
Every month the OpenMRS community highlights one of its contributors in the OpenMRS so you have the chance to learn to learn more about the people involved in the project. This month, OpenMRS community manager Michael Downey introduces you to Lluis Martinez from Spain... Read More »
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Maryland and Estonian Civilians Take Up Arms Against Hackers
Maryland has started a volunteer netwarfare squad that the Estonian ambassador likens to her country's groundbreaking civilian cyber reserve, which was assembled after neighboring Russia allegedly shut down the former Soviet state's Internet access in 2007. Read More »
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Mavericks: The End Of Macs In The Enterprise?
Macs have never been that popular in business. But if Apple is indeed no longer supporting security updates for older Mac OS X versions, Macs won't have any place left in the enterprise office. Read More »
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Medicaid Expansion, Insurance Exchanges Taxing State Health Agencies
Medicaid is set to expand next year, and state IT departments are grappling with pressing deadlines, new eligibility rules and millions of potential applicants as they ready systems to accommodate the changes. Read More »
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Meet CGI Federal, The Company Behind The Botched Launch Of HealthCare.gov
Over the past few weeks, if you've been paying attention at all to the unfolding disaster of people trying and failing to sign up for Obamacare online, one name keeps coming up: CGI Federal, the IT contractor that has orchestrated most of the Healthcare.gov Web site. By most accounts, it's been a complete train wreck, for reasons both technical and bureaucratic. Here's what you need to know about the company at the center of it all. Read More »
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Meet On FOSS For Young Professionals
In order to expose young professionals to the opportunities in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and related technology areas, the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) will be organising ‘The FOSS Young Professional Meet-2013 (FYPM 2013)’ at Technopark here from September 27 to 29. Read More »
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