by Dale Dougherty
| @dalepd | 12 February 2011
DealBook in the New York Times offers a portrait of Gary Gensler who is chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. I was inspired by Gensler's story. He moved from Wall Street to Washington to go into public service while raising three girls as a single father. His quest to "overhaul the murky $600 trillion derivatives market" is meeting with...
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The fifth Tech@State Conference focuses on the role of open source in government, industry and society.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 11 February 2011
Public officials, technologists and citizens will discuss open source's role in government and society at the Tech@State conference, being held today in Washington, D.C.
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The FCC and FortiusOne launch IssueMap.org, a citizen-generated mapping tool.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 8 February 2011
IssueMap.org, a new project from the FCC and FortiusOne, aims to convert open data into knowledge and insight.
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by Andy Oram
| @praxagora | 5 February 2011
About clinical effectiveness research, EHRs, and just working
together.
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The Heritage Healthcare Prize puts up $3 million dollars for a predictive algorithm to identify at-risk patients.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 3 February 2011
The Heritage Health Prize will ask the world's scientists to submit an algorithm that will help identify patients at risk of hospitalization before they need to go to the emergency room.
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Granicus built a business helping governments get video online.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 2 February 2011
Over the past decade -- and long before "open government" was a popular topic -- Granicus built a sustainable business as a cloud-based platform for streaming government video.
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