Innovation
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SOPA and PIPA Are Bad Industrial Policy
The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention, especially not one as ill-targeted as SOPA and PIPA. We already have laws that prohibit unauthorized resale of copyrighted material, and forward-looking content providers are developing products, business models, pricing, and channels that can and will eventually drive pirates out of business by making content readily available at a price consumers want to pay, and that ends up growing the market.
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Sophomore class of Presidential Innovation Fellows announced
The White House welcomed 43 innovators into federal service today, as a new round of Presidential Innovation Fellows was tapped for duty. Read More »
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Space Storms Could Knock Out The World’s Entire Critical Communications Infrastructure
In 1859, from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, we were given an important lesson about how vulnerable we are to the Sun’s power. The Carrington Event, named for the amateur astronomer who recorded it, Richard Christopher Carrington, was a coronal mass ejection: a huge burst of solar wind... Read More »
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SparkFun CEO Nathan Seidle To Speak At TEDxBoulder Event
SparkFun Electronics, a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is proud to announce CEO Nathan Seidle will be presenting at the third annual TEDxBoulder event on Saturday, Sept. 22. Read More »
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SparkFun Engineer To Speak At 2012 Open Hardware Summit
SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is honored to announce Engineer Mike Hord's presentation at the 2012 Open Hardware Summit (http://summit.oshwa.org/). Read More »
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Stanford Conference To Explore Right To Information And Technology
A global movement has been underway to use innovative technology platforms to record, store, process, and disseminate public information to advance transparency and accountability... Read More »
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State CIOs Eye Enterprise IT, More Federal Flexibility
Interoperability, IT funding and the yet-to-be-built public safety broadband network are a few of the national issues weighing heavy on the minds of state CIOs in these early days of 2013. Read More »
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State to Host African Leaders for Innovation Summit
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will welcome more than 60 young African leaders to the Innovation Summit and Mentoring Partnership starting June 13.
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Stop Patent Mischief By Curbing Patent Enforcement
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Software patents are evil. They allow the work of innovators to be ambushed and raise the cost of technology innovation. But finding a viable solution to the software patent mess isn't easy. Read More »
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Strengthening The Health Workforce through eHealth Innovation: Reflections From The GETHealth Summit
I recently had the privilege of representing CapacityPlus at the Global Education and Technology Health (GETHealth) Summit at the United Nations in New York City, speaking in sessions on distance learning in rural communities and leveraging social media to address the global health workforce gap. Read More »
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Study: Elite Scientists Can hold Back Science
Recently, researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) released a working paper — titled, "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?" — that puts Planck's principle to the test. Sifting through citations in the PubMed database, they found evidence that when a prominent researcher suddenly dies in an academic subfield, a period of new ideas and innovation follow. The NBER team identified 12,935 "elite" scientists — based on the amount of funding they receive, how many times they've published, how many patents they invented, or whether they were members of the National Academies of Sciences or the Institute of Medicine...
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Suits Against Personal TV Technology And The Right To Innovate Without Permission: EFF 2012 In Review Series
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read other blog posts in this series. Read More »
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Summary Of “ITdotHealth II” – The 2012 Harvard Health IT Meeting
The following is an overview of the conference, held September 10-11, 2012. In several weeks, we will post a complete executive summary, as well as videos and slide presentations from the event. Read More »
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Super-Communities Debuting for Open Source Vertical Supply Chains
The emergence of super-communities — such as Polarsys, OpenMama and Genivi — will continue to evolve in 2012. These vertically-oriented super-communities, the Olliance Group point out, serve the needs of all players in open source supply chains.
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Swan Song For Connectathon In Windy City
Anticipation about the IHE North American Connectathon’s move to Cleveland in 2015 is running high among the event’s organizers, though they insist that they are not looking past their final year in Chicago Jan. 27-31, 2014. Read More »
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