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[News] Openness/Transparency Thriving in More New Areas

  • Subject: [News] Openness/Transparency Thriving in More New Areas
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:40:29 +0000
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DOE Launches New Website to Bring Energy Technology Information to the Public

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| The data and tools housed on the free, 
| editable and evolving wiki-platform will be 
| used by government officials, the private 
| sector, project developers, the 
| international community, and others to help 
| deploy clean energy technologies across the 
| country and around the world.
`----

http://media-newswire.com/release_1107929.html

Open Colour Standard: free/open alternative to Pantone

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| Ginger coons writes in about the Open 
| Colour Standard, "an effort to create a new 
| colour standard to help free/open source 
| graphics programs bridge the gap between 
| screen and print."
`----

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/13/open-colour-standard.html

Flat World Knowledge Adds Another $2.5 Million For Open-Source Textbooks 

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| Open-source textbook firm Flat World 
| Knowledge has raised an additional $2.5 
| million in funding. The company said back 
| in March that it had raised $8 million in a 
| first round of fundingâbut a spokesman says 
| that round was expanded because of 
| âmomentumâ in its business. The startup 
| says that this fall more than 40,000 
| college students at 400 colleges used its 
| textbooks, which it makes available for 
| free online and are registered under a 
| Creative Commons open license, up from 
| 1,000 students at 30 colleges last spring. 
| The additional funding comes as there 
| appears to be a growing movement among 
| students and colleges to find alternatives 
| to purchasing high-priced textbooks. Rental 
| textbook firms Chegg and BookRenter have 
| both raised their own rounds in recent 
| months. 
`----

http://paidcontent.org/article/419-flat-world-knowledge-adds-another-2.5-million-for-open-source-textbooks/

Dell Increases its Crowdsourcing Efforts - Will it Work?

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| The free form aspects of the crowdsourcing 
| effort attracts a consumer crowd. Product 
| groups at Dell find Ideastorm useful. The 
| Linux community is especially vocal on 
| IdeaStorm and Dell now offers Ubuntu on 
| Dell machines based on feedback from the 
| Linux community.
`----

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2009/12/dell-deepens-its-crowdsourcing.php


Recent:

Obama Promotes New Open Government Initiative

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| U.S. government agencies must publish their
| information online in "open formats," under
| a new open government plan released by U.S.
| President Barack Obama's administration.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/184030/obama_promotes_new_open_government_initiative.html


OSTP to Launch Public Forum to Discuss Options for Improving Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research

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| On Thursday, Dec. 10, OSTP will launch a
| public consultation on Public Access
| Policy. The Administration is seeking
| public input on access to publicly-funded
| research results, such as those that appear
| in academic and scholarly journal articles.
| Currently, the National Institutes of
| Health require that research funded by its
| grants be made available to the public
| online at no charge within 12 months of
| publication. The Administration is seeking
| views as to whether this policy should be
| extended to other science agencies and, if
| so, how it should be implemented.
`----

http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/12/09/ostp-to-launch-public-forum-on-how-best-to-make-federally-funded-research-available-for-free/


Why open source may win the electronic health record market

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| There are literally dozens of EHRs to
| choose from. The vast majority are
| proprietary.
|
| [...]
|
| Enter Medsphere, a commercial supporter of
| VistA software. Their OpenVista is open
| source. Kern could download it, call it
| free, and then sign a professional services
| contract with Medsphere for support.
`----

http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/why-open-source-may-win-the-electronic-health-record-market/684/


Find out where the UK government spends its money

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| The Open Knowledge Foundation has created a
| visualisation so that everyone can easily
| understand British government spending
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/dec/11/government-borrowing-public-finance


Full Nelson: Video: San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent

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| CTO Adams and the city of San Francisco are
| looking to share the technology, which is
| built on an open source platform.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/state-local/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900791
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