– The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites attendance at theJune 2015 OGC Technical Committee Meeting be held at UCAR/NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado . In addition to a rich agenda of Working Group meetings and special events, there will be a dinner reception andGardels Award announcement on Wednesday evening at the NCAR/UCAR Mesa Laboratory. – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites attendance at thebe held at UCAR/NCAR Center Green in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to a rich agenda of Working Group meetings and special events, there will be a dinner reception andannouncement on Wednesday evening at the NCAR/UCAR Mesa Laboratory. Read more…
Editor’s note: Chris Boone will be answering questions during a live Health Affairs Twitter Q&A, Friday, May 15, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. ET using #healthdatanow. The health data movement started with a call for open health data. In 2010, the Institute of Medicine and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services convened the Health Data Initiative to explore the potential of open government health data to fuel discovery by private sector entrepreneurs to improve health care. What started as a gathering of 45 people in 2010 has now grown to be Health Datapalooza, an annual event hosted by Health Data Consortium with more than 2,000 participants. This year’s gathering—which I encourage you to attend—will take place in Washington, DC from May 31 to June 3. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwired – May 13, 2015) – Actiance, the leader in compliance, security, archiving and eDiscovery for all critical business communications, today announced the close of $28 million in a late-stage growth investment, as the company extends its leadership position in the rapidly evolving, high-growth, compliance, archiving, and eDiscovery markets. New investor, Golub Capital, joined existing investors Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, JK&B Capital, Scale Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. The funds will be used to accelerate go-to-market, extend product innovation and scale globally to meet the growing market demand. “Actiance is piloting a strong growth trajectory. Read more…
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced its participation in the OpenStack Summit, which will be held from May 18 – 22, 2015 at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Nexenta will be present within Solinea’s booth # T-10 and Canonical’s booth # P-3, where demonstrations of NexentaEdge will be shown daily from 2-4pm PT. Nexenta is also announcing availability of its updated NexentaStor Cinder Driver, which offers new certification for the Kilo release of OpenStack. Nexenta was first to offer the first commercially available cinder driver. Read more…
Not satisfied by having our emails, chats, status updates, search histories, clicking behaviors, and shopping preferences, some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech titans are in an arms race to get access to your most personal information: your DNA. Last week, for instance, the MIT Technology Review reported that Apple was looking to integrate genetic data into studies that run atop its new open-source research platform, ResearchKit. That should come as no surprise. There’s a national focus on personalized medicine, and since DNA information is becoming cheaper to get and store, the healthcare industry is hoping that personalized medicine will be part of the solution to rising costs. Read more…
‘In the long run, these ‘Big Data’ solutions will help improve PLDT’s bottom line and increase the subscriber base of the group,’ PLDT chief strategy officer Winston Damarillo says MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) said it will invest over P1.34 billion ($30 million) in the next 3 years to ramp up its “Big Data” solutions, which allow local enterprises to analyze openly available information for important business decisions. “We already put in P1.34 billion ($30 million) since three years ago. We’re gonna invest more than that over the next three years,” PLDT Chief Strategy Officer Winston Damarillo said in a media briefing in Makati City Wednesday. Read more…
WHAT: “Accelerating Data Innovation: A Legislative Agenda for Congress” from the Center for Data Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. WHY: As the Obama administration winds down, Congress has an opportunity to enshrine elements of its open data policy into law, to make sure the federal government maintains its commitment to regularly publishing agency data sets online. In addition to codifying open data, the authors of the report have a slate of 11 recommendations for Congress to modernize its data posture. A few of these are going to be controversial. Read more…
ロサンゼルス郡、以上 1000 万住民と国の最も人口稠密な郡はオンライン サービスを追加する続けています。 5 月 7 日、郡発表オープン データ ウェブサイト (https://data.lacounty.gov/) を立ち上げたの仕事のほぼ 2 年後。Socrata、上に構築された web サイトをさまざまなカテゴリでのデータセットの何百も提供しています： 予算、公共の従業員の給与、健康、GIS データ、公共の安全、「米国でのプロパティ評価レコードの最大のオンライン コレクション」郡の CIO は、将来的に web サイトに情報を追加する部門で動作します。 “これは郡の重要な第一歩です。今我々 の郡の住民にアクセス可能で、前例のない方法で詳細については提供している「郡スーパーバイザー マーク リドリー Thomas は言った。 続きを読む…
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Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county with more than 10 million residents, is continuing to add online services. On May 7 the county announced it has launched an open data website (https://data.lacounty.gov/) after nearly two years of work. The website, built on Socrata, offers hundreds of datasets in a variety of categories: budget, public employee salaries, health, GIS data, public safety and “the largest online collection of property assessment records in the U.S.” The county CIO will work with departments to add more information to the website in the future. “This is an important first step for the county. We are now offering more information in an accessible and unprecedented way to our county residents,” said county supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. Read more…
Sharing meaningful data can greatly enhance the productivity and long-term success of a region’s nonprofit organizations. Addressing what is working, and what is not, can enable collective regional agility for better effectiveness. Nationally, the push for open data has been rapidly gaining support and visibility for several years and is finally coming to the region in the form of the Central Massachusetts DataCommon and Indicators Projects. Brought to the area by the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission, the DataCommon is an interactive, web-based data mapping and visualization tool packed with information on topics from health care and education to economic development and transportation. Read more…
