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Everyone Innovates Every Day: Collaborative Idea Management at Ericsson
At Ericsson, a collaborative idea management tool is enabling all employees to innovate everyday across the organization. After 3 years of use, the pull based and self-organizing system has over 15000 ideas. More than 300 innovation managers globally have opened idea boxes to attract ideas for their specific innovation efforts. Read More »
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Excerpts from Keynote Speaker at 2nd International Open Government Data Conference
The following are key excerpts from the keynote speaker, World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey, at the 2nd International Open Government Data Conference held this week in Washington, D.C. Read More »
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Exchange Plans Hide Your True Financial Exposure
[...] How much protection does health insurance offer and how can consumers know? Read More »
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Expanded Data Transparency Bill Clears House Panel
A bill requiring agencies to post numbers on specific programs on government performance data websites cleared the House Oversight and Government Reform panel Thursday as an amendment to an earlier committee bill that would broaden requirements for posting government spending. Read More »
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Experts Suggest NHS And US Health Care Systems Learn From Each Other
Medical experts from the USA and the UK have suggested in their Health Policy paper that the health care systems of both countries should share ideas. Read More »
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Exposing the Cost of Health Care
Travelocity for medicine: Castlight's data-driven tool sheds light on the costs of medical care, information that can be difficult for consumers to find on their own. It's easy to compare prices on cameras, vacations, and homes. But in the United States, patients fly blind when paying for health care. Read More »
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FAA Asks: Please Don't Shoot Down The Drones
Earlier this week, one Colorado town floated the idea of letting its residents buy hunting permits for drones. Now, the FAA has responded to the proposal by telling Americans to please stop thinking about shooting down drones. Read More »
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FACT SHEET - Executive Actions: Answering The President’s Call To Strengthen Our Patent System And Foster Innovation
FACT SHEET - Executive Actions: Answering the President’s Call to Strengthen Our Patent System and Foster Innovation Read More »
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FDA Finally Imposes Some Controls On Agricultural Antibiotics. Sort Of.
This morning, the US Food and Drug Administration dropped some long-awaited-but-still-big news regarding the use of antibiotics in meat production. Tl;dr: The FDA asked (but did not compel) the livestock industry to stop using the micro-dose “growth promoter” antibiotics that are widely believed to contribute to increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria in animals, food and humans. Read More »
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Fed IT Reform Bill Introduced In Senate, Spurred By HealthCare.gov
A bipartisan team of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would overhaul how the government buys and builds information technology systems. Read More »
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Federal CIO Outlines Second-Term IT Priorities
Amid continued cost cutting, the White House will seek to drive innovation, ROI and cybersecurity. Read More »
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Federal Records Must Go Digital, But Managers Say They Can't Do It Without More Resources
Nearly half of federal records managers believe the Obama administration’s goals for making all new records digital and electronically searchable by 2019 is unrealistic, a new study has found. Read More »
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Feds Well-Represented On Innovator List
What do federal CIO Steven VanRoekel, CTO Todd Park, the State Department's Alec Ross, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Issa staffer Seamus Kraft, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's advisor Matt Lira, White House Director of New Media Macon Phillips, and President Barack Obama have in common? Read More »
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Feds' Rampant Use of No-Bid Contracts the Essence of Corruption
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) David Shulkin just awarded a contract worth billions of dollars to Cerner, a health technology company. Secretary Shulkin, who was seeking a firm to build the VA's new electronic health records system, awarded the contract without even considering proposals from other companies...
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Fighting For More #transparency
As we’ve shown over the years, Twitter is firmly committed to enabling free expression around the world and providing meaningful transparency to our users. In light of ongoing revelations about government surveillance, we’ve taken a public stand in support of increased transparency and Global Government Surveillance Reform. Read More »
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