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UK Cabinet Office Relaunches Data.gov.uk, Releases Open Data White Paper
The British government is doubling down on the notion that open data can be a catalyst for increased government transparency, civic utility and economic prosperity. Read More »
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UK Government defines Open Standard's Principles
In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down firmly on the side of RF, not FRAND. The UK government's approach is enshrined in an important new document defining what it calls Open Standards Principles. Read More »
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UK Government Finalizes Open Standards Principles: The Bigger Picture
Last week, the UK Cabinet Office released its Open Standards Principles: For software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT specifications. Read More »
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UK Open-Access Route Too Costly, Report Says
The UK government's favoured route to open-access publishing puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages, says a parliamentary report released today. It also calls for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research. Read More »
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Unleashing The Power Of Data And Technology To Rebalance The World
Developing countries have moved from being the site of development initiatives to the transmitter of development innovation. Read More »
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UPDATE 1-Apple, Google, Dozens Of Others Urge U.S. Surveillance Disclosures
Dozens of companies, non-profits and trade organizations including Apple Inc, Google Inc and Facebook Inc sent a letter on Thursday pushing the Obama administration and Congress for more disclosures on the government's national security-related requests for user data. Read More »
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US Government Opens Access to Federal Source Code with Code.gov
In March of this year, the Obama administration created a draft for Federal Source Code policy to support improved access to custom software code. After soliciting comments from public, the administration announced the Federal Source Code policy in August. One of the core features of the policy was the adoption of an open source development model: This policy also establishes a pilot program that requires agencies, when commissioning new custom software, to release at least 20 percent of new custom-developed code as Open Source Software (OSS) for three years, and collect additional data concerning new custom software to inform metrics to gauge the performance of this pilot...
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USAID Establishes Its First Open Data Policy
The U.S. Agency for International Development jumped on the open data wave last week, announcing its first-ever policy to share its data sets and tools with the public on a central repository...
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Ushahidi Announces Changes to Board of Directors
Ushahidi today announced that its board of directors has appointed three new members, effective September 19th. The new directors are Clay Shirky, David Kobia and Erik Hersman. Read More »
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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing The World One Map At A Time
Recognizing remarkable creativity and effectiveness by non-profits across the globe, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Read More »
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Ushahidi: An Introduction To Anti-Corruption Mapping
This blog post is the first of a blog series on anti-corruption and transparency mapping by Ushahidi’s Heather Leson. The series will discuss best practices and feature some of the strategies to connect policy and action with online savvy. Read More »
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Using Scientific Publications Strategy to Ensure a Pharmaceutical Company's Credibility and a Product's Viability
Scientific publications remain the principal way that biopharmaceutical organizations relay critical clinical trial data to key external stakeholders such as physicians and payers. Data from different phases of drug development are the earliest ways these stakeholders learn about new products and the information serves as the building blocks for how a new product will be positioned in the marketplace...
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VA to Go Live with Online Appointment Scheduling in January
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expects to be able to roll out new app software nationwide to enable online appointment scheduling beginning this January. Patients initially will be able to set up primary-care appointments via an app that will be available on their computers, phones or tablets, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The agency will look to extend that functionality to optometry, audiology and mental-health appointments...
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Valuable Mental Health Apps Lost in a Sea of Untrustworthy Digital Solutions
The mental health industry has been flooded with potentially untrustworthy apps.
With more than 10,000 mobile health apps available to assist with mental health treatment, patients and clinicians now face the daunting challenge of parsing out trustworthy digital tools. That challenge has only intensified as more apps have entered the marketplace amid the FDA’s hands-off approach to regulating apps and wearables, researchers wrote in JAMA Psychiatry...
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Verizon Threatens To Sue Netflix Over Error Message
Verizon is threatening to sue Netflix over a message the video site is displaying to users when their videos stall and buffer...
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