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   Older Adults and Social Media
Source: http://pewresearch.org
Source Date: Friday, August 27, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older has nearly doubled -- from 22% to 42% over the past year.
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   Government needs to close the feedback loop
Source: http://thehill.com/
Source Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: The government must take a page from the technology industry by learning how to measure the effectiveness of its programs, according to tech evangelist and O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly.
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   Why data matter
Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
Source Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: When Canada has trouble measuring how much snow is on the ground, something is seriously wrong with the state of government research.
10 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 30, 2010
   Group Calls on Montreal to Join Open-Data Movement
Source: The Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com/Group+calls+Montreal+join+open+data+movement/3433096/story.html#ixzz0xX0pwx00
Source Date: Monday, August 23, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: "Everything from crime stats to garbage-collection times should be available to public, Montréal ouverte says" A group of citizens is pushing Montreal to join a worldwide movement to make its information accessible to all citizens. They hope to create a public campaign to mount what the founders call “gentle pressure” on the city to make more information public, and to make th ... Read More
22 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 25, 2010
   Spurning the Internet; Many Americans Not Online at All, by Choice
Source: Government Computer News (http://gcn.com/)
Source Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: It's common to assume that just about everybody is online these days. The Internet's gone from being the exclusive tool of government and scientists, to a consumer novelty, to a part of everyday life – for most of us.
17 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 20, 2010
   Government Uses Social Networking Sites for More than Investigations
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org)
Source Date: Monday, August 16, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: In the midst of recent controversies over Facebook’s privacy settings, it’s easy to forget how much personal information is available from other sources on the Internet. But the government remembers.
40 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 19, 2010
   Open Government toolkit to be rolled out internationally
Source: publictechnology.net
Source Date: Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: An integration toolkit enabling local governments to receive service requests through social networks, mobile applications, and third-party websites, is to be rolled out internationally following a successful proof of concept in San Francisco.
99 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 16, 2010
   Half of New York City Has Smart Water Meters, Official Says
Source: www.govtech.com
Source Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: New York City is ahead of schedule on its goal of installing smart water meters for all city customers by 2012, officials said Monday, Aug. 9. Automated meter reading (AMR) units have been installed for half of the city's customers, 417,000 in all, according to an announcement from the city Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway.
22 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 16, 2010
   Three Keys to Ensure More Transparent City Governments
Source: Los Angeles Daily News http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_15707155
Source Date: Sunday, August 08, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: Christopher McKenzie, the executive director of the League of California Cities, talks about the three principles to ensure more transparent city governments.
115 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Aug 11, 2010
   Twitter attacked for lax security
Source: Financial Times
Source Date: Friday, June 25, 2010
Focus: Health, ICT for improving health systems
Summary: According to the documents released Thursday, in January of last year a hacker used an automated password-guessing tool to crack the management account of a [Twitter] employee, who used a common dictionary word in lower case with no numbers or special characters. Many companies lock down employee accounts after a set number of login tries, but Twitter did not. The intruder then used that acces ... Read More
23 Views | Rated 0.0 | Created On : Jul 06, 2010
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