Open Source Health IT Solutions for Governments to Consider
Healthcare is a major budget item for government at all levels.There are now many high quality, free and open source Health IT systems that community hospitals and clinics should consider using as an alternative to more expensive commercial systems. This could save state & local governments ‘big’ bucks. Check out the most popular ‘open source’Read… Read more »
Case Study: Public Engagement at Tenaska’s Trailblazer Project
“The Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center is a cutting-edge coal-fueled electric generating plant currently under development near Sweetwater,Texas. It is among the first such plants in the USA to include commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture equipment in its design and will be among the cleanest coal-fueled power plants in the USA. Over the past three years, theRead… Read more »
If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too
“Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.” – Clay Shirky at TED Cannes in June 2010 This is one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite people in the business, Clay Shirky. I particularly like it because it illustrates the period many organizationsRead… Read more »
Want to Know Where Your Power Comes From? Look North.
The EIA has put together a graphic depicting net power flows in the US (not including HI and AK). The overriding theme of their data is that electricity flows south in the US. The EIA says that the largest energy flows often come from areas with predictably over-sized generation capacity. The Northwest’s generation capacity isRead… Read more »
Inventing Equality: On Patents in the Great American Hall of Wonders
Margaret E. Knight, Patent Model of Machine for Making Paper Bags, 1879, U.S. Patent No. 220925, wood, brass, paper and paint, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center The current exhibition, The Great American Hall of Wonders celebrates the 19th-century American spirit of ingenuity through the examination of art, science, andRead… Read more »
What is the Role of the ‘Open Source’ Movement in Society Today?
We are in the process of transitioning from the Industrial Age of the past century into the Information Age of the 21st century. Many acknowledge this but don’t really grasp what it means. We are moving from the ‘closed’ protective systems that worked well in the Industrial Age to the new, more effective ‘open’ systemsRead… Read more »
Clipper card planned for Solano County in 2013
Commuters in Solano County will be able to use the regional Clipper card on SolTrans (CA) buses, but they will have to wait another year. Original post
Education 2012
Happy New Year! The purpose of education has changed. It’s past time to change the methods and results. For Socrates, a scroll could be read twenty times before crumbling. Read it each time to twenty students and you have squared the impact of the technology. Efficient. It was really expensive to read alone in theRead… Read more »
12 Hopes for 2012: Enhanced Adoption of Digital Technologies
As the Digital Era progresses, technological capabilities continue to outstrip our willingness and ability to address the opportunities and challenges they present. In this post I offer 12 hopes for 2012 that are rooted in the psychological challenges we face and are built on our willingness – both individually and collectively – to tackle themRead… Read more »