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âCloud in the skyâ idea brings Haiti relief efforts into focus for geography students
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| Such has been the experience for a group of
| University of Nevada, Reno geography
| students and their instructor. They have
| spent the early days of the spring semester
| participating in a worldwide effort using
| the open digital technology source
| OpenStreetMap to help Haiti in its effort
| to rebuild.
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http://www.unr.edu/features/09-10/haiti/
Open-source alternatives bring flexibility to textbooks
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| Students can access open-source textbooks
| online for free or purchase a printed
| version through Web sites of open-source
| textbook providers.
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http://www.statepress.com/node/11232
Recent:
Open Access, Intellectual Property, and How Biotechnology Becomes a New Software Science
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1262
Obama's open-government director opens up
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| On Tuesday morning, the Obama
| administration formally unveiled its Open
| Government directive, an effort aimed at
| weaving the philosophies of openness,
| transparency and participation into the
| DNA of the federal government and its
| agencies.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10411479-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
White House to release new gov't data collections
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| The White House on Tuesday instructed
| every federal agency to publish before the
| end of January at least three collections
| of "high value" government data on the
| Internet that never have been previously
| disclosed, an ambitious order to make the
| administration as transparent as President
| Barack Obama had promised it would be.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvUu8X07cIy9kxTDNWHi1XHfRtTAD9CFDOV80
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