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Open Source Strategy: OpenMRS case study

Last week I had the pleasure of being invited to Indianapolis to give a talk at the Regenstrief Institute – an informatics and healthcare research organization – which also happens to host the founders of OpenMRS.
For those not familiar with OpenMRS (which I assume to be most of you) it is open-source, enterprise electronic medical [...]

¶ Posted 26 February 2010 | David Eaves § OpenMRS § technology ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: community, community management, healthcare, open source, OpenMRS, social contract, strategy

Open Government – New Book from O’Reilly Media

I’m very excited to share I have a chapter in the new O’Reilly Media book Open Government (US Link & CDN Link). I’ve just been told that the book has just come back from the printers and can now be ordered.
Also exciting is that a sample of the book (pictured left) that includes the [...]

¶ Posted 22 February 2010 | David Eaves § cool links § public policy § reviews § technology ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: cool links, government, mozilla, open government, public policy

More Open Data Apps hit Vancouver

Since the launch of Vancouver’s open data portal a lot of the talk has focused on independent or small groups of programmers hacking together free applications for citizens to use. Obviously I’ve talked a lot about (and have been involved in) Vantrash and have been a big fan of the Amazon.ca/Vancouver Public Library Greasemonkey script [...]

¶ Posted 01 February 2010 | David Eaves § cool links § open data § technology § vancouver ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: applications, microsoft, open data, open source, technology, vancouver

Vancouver Open Data Version 2: New Apps to create

Wow, wow, wow.
The City of Vancouver has just launched version 2 of its open data portal. A number of new data sets have been added to the site which is very exciting. Better still previously released data sets have been released in new formats.
Given that at 5pm tomorrow (Tuesday. Jan 26th) there will be the [...]

¶ Posted 25 January 2010 | David Eaves § open data § public policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: applications, cities, iphone, open, open data, open source, vancouver

The Internet as Surveillance Tool

There is a deliciously ironic, pathetically sad and deeply frightening story coming out of France this week.
On January 1st France’s new (and controversial law) Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet otherwise known by its abbreviation – Hadopi – came into effect. The law makes it illegal to [...]