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The White House invited ordinary Americans on Thursday to contribute ideas on making government more open

White House launches open government initiative

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The White House invited ordinary Americans on Thursday to contribute ideas on making government more open and unveiled a new website where raw federal data will be put online for public use.





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Nepal expands critical tiger habitat

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Government of Nepal announced today an expansion of Bardia National Park in the Terai Arc Landscape by 900 sq km, which will increase critical habitat for tigers.


Digital Democracy: The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

Digital Democracy: The World Wide Web Consortium weighs in on government transparency

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On May 21, the day the White House unveiled its Open Government Initiative, it also launched the website data.gov, which put information like Medicare cost reports, residential energy consumption ...


Researchers hail innovative plan to save rainforest, reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An innovative proposal by the Ecuadorian government to protect an untouched, oil rich region of Amazon rainforest is a precedent-setting and potentially economically viable approach, says a team of environmental researchers ...


Drinks industry supplanting government role in alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A recent comparison of proposed national alcohol policies in Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, and Botswana shows that the drinks industry has assumed a significant and detrimental role in designing national alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan ...


UN demands removal of China poster at Net event

Technology / Internet

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters ...


Scientists develop novel method to generate functional hepatocytes for drug testing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have for the first time produced liver cells from adult skin cells using the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.


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San Francisco tapping into tech-savvy citizens

Technology / Software

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

San Francisco is letting citizens create software tools to exploit city data for the public good.


White House opens Web site programming to public

Technology / Internet

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(AP) -- A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze - you won't notice a thing.


US says Tamiflu for the sick, not a preventive

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Federal health officials put out new guidelines Tuesday that say the flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza should only be used to treat people who are sick with the flu and at high risk for complications.


Massive monitoring project to identify dairy air quality parameters

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Optimizing expertise and equipment to get solid answers both producers and government agencies can use was the goal of a massive two-week air quality monitoring project at an eastern New Mexico dairy, according to project ...



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