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A Real Healthcare Reform: Data

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Christina Gagnier

As the vote in the Senate to repeal the healthcare reform law failed, Silicon Valley played host to a discussion on real innovation for our healthcare system: the powerful potential of data.

Tim Berners-Lee Says WikiLeaks Is Not Open Government Data

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Alexander Howard

Earlier this week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, expressed his views on WikiLeaks, putting himself inline with President Obama as to what constitutes open government.

First International Open Government Data Conference Features the Power of Platforms

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Alexander Howard

Is sunlight the best disinfectant, as Supreme Court Justice Brandeis famously said? This week in Washington, D.C., hundreds of experts have come toge...

World Development Report 2011 Launches New Website

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Nicholas van Praag

This post originally appeared on the World Bank's Conflict & Development Blog on October 14, 2010. Esabel Khoury co-authored this post. After months ...

Federal CTO Makes the Case for Open Government and Innovation

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Alexander Howard

Aneesh Chopra makes sure that the technology, data and innovation aspects of any given policy that comes before the president are thought through and are considered in a little more aggressive way.

Nonprofits: Open Up Your Data, Become a Platform Organization

Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Tanja Aitamurto

Nonprofit organizations are facing a similar challenge to other organizations: the old structures don't apply to this era, and the new structures are yet to be found.

Open Data in Agriculture and Why It Matters

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Elizabeth McVay Greene

Let this essay serve as a call for a networked food system that harnesses and applies robust information through data generation, database architecture, open research and collaboration, in pursuit of more efficient and more productive food and farming.

FTC Considers Publishing Public Data Online to Support the Future of Journalism

Alexander Howard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Alexander Howard

The same disruptive effect that the Internet had on the newspaper industry at the end of the 20th Century could end up being a sustaining force as humanity moves forward into the 21st Century.