It was thus fitting that Estonia, the current EU presidency, brought together Ministers from 32 countries (under the umbrellas of the EU and European Free Trade Association) to adopt the Tallinn Declaration on E-Government, creating a renewed political dynamism coupled with legal tools to accelerate the implementation of a range of existing EU policy instruments (e.g., the e-Government Action Plan and ISA² program). Perhaps the most significant development for open source supporters is the explicit recognition of open source software (OSS) as a key driver towards achieving ambitious governmental digitisation goals by 2020.
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Do You Want The Government Buying Your Data From Corporations?
Bruce Schneier | The Atlantic | April 30, 2013
A new bill moving through Congress would give the authorities unprecedented access to citizens' information. Read More »
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Docker And The Rise Of Open Source
Aaref Hilaly | LinkedIn | November 18, 2014
There’s never been a phenomenon like Docker. Eighteen months ago, the company took its core technology, which enables IT people to move software easily between different machines by enclosing it in “containers”, and made it open source...
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Doctors Promoting Treatments on Social Media Routinely Fail to Disclose Ties to Drug Makers
Sheila Kaplan | STAT | February 29, 2016
Physicians across the United States routinely offer medical advice on social media — but often fail to mention that they have accepted tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the companies that make the prescription drugs they tout. A STAT examination of hundreds of social media accounts shows that health care professionals virtually never note their conflicts of interest, some of them significant, when promoting drugs or medical devices on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The practice cuts across all specialties...
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Does Elon Musk And OpenAI Want To Democratise Or Sanitise Artificial Intelligence?
Theo Priestley | Forbes | December 13, 2015
As reported in Forbes yesterday, Elon Musk announced the OpenAI research initiative, with the explicit goal to "advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return." Details are sparse at this time given its recent inception, but Musk has a history of being outspoken about the dangers of artificial intelligence, calling it the biggest existential threat that humanity may face in years to come.
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Don’t Listen To Google And Facebook: The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership Is Still Going Strong
Bruce Schneier | The Atlantic | March 25, 2014
If you’ve been reading the news recently, you might think that corporate America is doing its best to thwart NSA surveillance. Google just announced that it is encrypting Gmail when you access it from your computer or phone, and between data centers.
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DuckDuckGo Search Engine Gets Boost After PRISM Scandal
Cadie Thompson | CNBC | June 19, 2013
The 'anonymous' search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal that is putting big tech companies like Google and Apple to shame. Read More »
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EHRs Inflict Enormous Pain on Doctors. It’ll Take More Than Stopwatches to Learn Why
Jonathan Bush | STAT | September 6, 2016
Electronic health records slow doctors down and distract them from meaningful face time caring for patients. That is the sad but unsurprising finding of a time and motion study published in Tuesday’s Annals of Internal Medicine1. A team of researchers determined that physicians are spending almost half of their time in the office on electronic health records (EHRs) and desk work and just 27 percent on face time with patients — which is what the vast majority of doctors went into medicine to do. Once they get home, they average another one to two hours completing EHRs...
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Enterprise Adoption Of Open Source Is On The Rise
Alan Ho | ZDNet | November 18, 2014
Enterprises are moving into open source - and for good reason...Open source software, which uses an open development process, is proliferating across the globe given the advantages it offers over traditional forms of software. Open source solutions can be modified and adapted to fit the needs of various companies - something that's often not possible with proprietary software.
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Europe Pledges Support For Open Source Government Solutions
By James Lovegrove | October 10, 2021
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European technology companies launch Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets
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Coalition For Competitive Digital Markets |
October 26, 2021
A group of 23 technology companies operating in Europe from 14 different countries and a business association of more than 45,000 digital SMEs announced today a new coalition to advocate for fair rules in digital markets. The Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets aims to contribute to a more balanced and open digital environment. Today’s internet is dominated by services and products offered by a small number of dominant online platforms, such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. These so-called “gatekeepers” control consumers’ access to information and abuse their position in order to limit market access for European businesses that offer alternative business models and services such as search, email, social media, operating systems and browsers.
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Facebook Acquires ProtoGeo, Maker Of Activity Tracking App Moves
Aditi Pai | MobiHealthNews | April 24, 2014
Social networking giant Facebook has acquired Finland-based fitness app maker Protogeo for an undisclosed sum, according to a blog post from ProtoGeo. The company’s high-profile app, called Moves, passively tracks a user’s daily activity using the phone’s built-in accelerometer in order to provide all-day tracking without killing the phone’s battery.
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Facebook Adapts Open Compute For Colo Space
Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | October 25, 2012
We’ve been closely tracking the progress of the Open Compute Project, wondering if these uber-efficient open source hardware designs would ever be available at your local colocation center. Facebook has now shared details of its first use of Open Compute hardware in its third-party colo space. Read More »
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Facebook And Conflict Data
Jonathon Morgan | Ushahidi | June 24, 2014
Facebook is quickly becoming the richest available source of real-time crisis reporting. Using CrisisNET we’ve been monitoring over 2,000 public Facebook pages focused on Middle East conflict since we launched the platform earlier this month. While data from these pages isn’t always perfect, it’s proven to be an invaluable resource for understanding conflict as it happens on the ground.
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Facebook Blows Up The Server Industry With New Open Source Hardware
Lucian Parfeni | Softpedia | January 17, 2013
It may seem a bit strange, but Facebook has some serious hardware chops these days. It started with the open hardware server designs, but this year the company is doing one better and unveiling a new standard server design that should allow for much more modular servers and racks. Read More »
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Facebook Hands Motherboard Designs To Open Compute Project
James Dohnert | V3.co.uk | January 17, 2013
Facebook has agreed to add its designs for a new common slot architecture specification for datacentre motherboards into the Open Compute Platform (OCP) initiative. Read More »
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