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.
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.
Is sunlight the best disinfectant, as Supreme Court Justice Brandeis famously said?
This week in Washington, D.C., hundreds of experts have come toge...
This post originally appeared on the World Bank's Conflict & Development Blog on October 14, 2010. Esabel Khoury co-authored this post.
After months ...
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.
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.
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.
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.