The National Broadband Map has more than 25 million records and incorporates crowdsourced reporting.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 17 February 2011
The new National Broadband Map is one of the largest implementations of open source and open data in government to date.
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A new tool from Google makes it easier for anyone to visualize data.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 16 February 2011
Making data visualizations just got a bit easier as Google has added Public Data Explorer to its suite of free data tools.
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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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