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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 § open source § technology ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

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 § open source § technology § vancouver ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

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 § open source § public policy ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

BC Government’s blog on renewing the Water Act

On Friday the Government of British Columbia announced that it was beginning the process to renew the province’s water act. This is, in of itself, important and good.
More interesting however, is that the government has chosen to launch a blog to discuss ideas, prospective changes and generally engage the public on water issues.
It is, of [...]

Posted 21 December 2009 | David Eaves § open data § open source § public policy ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

MuniForge: Creating municipalities that work like the web

Last month I published the following article in the Municipal Information Systems Association’s journal Municipal Interface. The article was behind a firewall so now that the month has gone by I’m throwing it up here. Basically, it makes the case for why, if government’s applied open source licenses to the software they developed (or paid [...]

Posted 08 December 2009 | David Eaves § open source § public policy § public service sector renewal § technology ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged: , ,

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