The Direct Project, formerly NHIN Direct, looks to unite health messaging and the Internet.
by Brian Ahier
| @ahier | 29 November 2010
Most healthcare communication still involves faxes and paper copies. The Direct Project, formerly known as NHIN Direct, wants to change that through software and secure Internet transport of health messaging.
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Max Ogden makes a pitch for more data and better open government patches.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 23 November 2010
Code for America Fellow Max Ogden's pitch for better "open government middleware" at the first Ignite Gov highlights the complexity of open data, along with the opportunities for civic hackers to co-create smarter government.
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How open government can have a global impact.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 19 November 2010
Samantha Power, special assistant to the President for multilateral affairs and human rights, discusses the relationship between open government, technology, human rights and transparency.
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User-friendly visualization tools are coming early next year.
by Andy Oram
| @praxagora | 18 November 2010
WEAVE is a visualization tool for public data, to be released in March 2011. In this post, Andy Oram compares WEAVE to other efforts and summarizes some of its upcoming features.
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BrightScope uses government data to clarify 401(k) plans, and it's making money along the way.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 18 November 2010
The story of Brightscope and 401(k) plan fees is one of the best government data-driven startup case studies in Gov 2.0, but it's not an open government data success story ... yet.
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The pieces are in place and the time is right for government to reinvent itself.
by Tim O'Reilly
| @timoreilly | 15 November 2010
We need to tell the stories of success and failure, of thinking differently, of connecting communities to strengthen bonds, of sharing and coming together to solve problems, and of working on stuff that matters.
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