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Open Affairs Television

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OpenAffairs TV covers open source technology, open government (Gov2.0) and healthcare technology. We bring reporting and interview people who are shaping the future of technology and government.

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Episodes

  1. Richard Boyd, Director of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies at Lockheed Martin

    Last year, on the last day of the HIMSS'11 conference, Richard Boyd of Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs shared his "Simulation Prescription"; showing how gaming and simulation technology have the potential to further revolutionize health care. One year later, OATV was able to catch up with...

  2. HIMSS 12 - Interoperability at Kaiser Permanente

    At HIMSS12 in Las Vegas, Open Affairs TV spoke with Phil Fasano, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest not-for-profit health plan and health care provider about some of the technology being contributed to the open-source community by KP....

  3. The e-Patient Rap: "I wanna be an e-Patient"

    Recorded at the first-ever O'Reilly Health Foocamp. @ePatientDave deBronkart, Health IT expert Keith "@motorcycle_guy" Boone and ONC "Consumerista" @Lygeia Riccardi go all-out on their wonderful rap sone "I wanna be an e-Patient". If you're a healthcare geek, it's a must watch!

  4. Open EMR presentation and discussion at Portland Linux User Group

    Tony McCormick, Secretary of the Open EMR Foundation, and Project manager of their Meaningful Use certification talks about the history of the project.

  5. Federal Health and technology leaders on open standards successes; encouraging health IT entrepreneurs at HIMSS '11 venture fair

    Proclaiming "today is the best time to be a healthcare entrepreneur in America", Unites States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra stood before a room of health IT and business leaders at the HIMSS 2011 Health IT Venture Fair & Strategic Partner Forum. Kicking off the pre-conference panel of...

  6. Steve Holden welcomes guests during his Open Bastion launch in Portland Oregon

    Steve Holden welcomes guests during his Open Bastion launch in Portland Oregon on February 17th, 2011. Steve announced his move to Portland, the launch of The Open bastion, as well as a call to action for a broad cross-section of the Portland open source, government and technology communities.

  7. Richard Boyd, Chief Architect for Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs

    On the last day of 2011 Healthcare Information Systems Society's Annual Conference & Exhibition, Richard Boyd, Chief Architect for Lockheed Martin Virtual World Labs, a renown expert in virtual reality simulation for computer gaming, defense and film industries, shared some of his vision about…

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  8. Executive Open Data Roundtable: The State of Open Government GOSCON 2010

    GOSCON 2010 opened with a general session; "Executive Open Data Roundtable: The State of Open Government". The Roundtable featured state, city and federal leaders exploring the successes and challenges of the open government directive. The roundtable included discussion of the successes and...

  9. Sean McSpaden, Deputy CIO of Oregon State and Deb Bryant discuss the Virtual USA project & open data

    Sean McSpaden, Oregon State Deputy CIO, spoke with Deb Bryant, GOSCON conference Chair and Public Sector Communities Manager from Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab. McSpaden was attending the 2010 Government Open Source Conference. Bryant initially asked about the state of the Virtual USA...

  10. John Scott (@johnmscott) discusses OSS in the Military with Deb Bryant

    John Scott, Director of Open Source Software and Open Integration at RadientBlue Technologies, joined Deb Bryant of Oregon State University's Open Source Lab to discuss how open source software and development approaches are used in the US Department of Defense. John is well known for his work…

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  11. Dugan Petty, Oregon State CIO talks Government IT with Deb Bryant of OSU Open Source Lab

    Dugan Petty, Oregon State CIO took a few minutes at the 2010 Government Open Source Conference to talk with Deb Bryant, Public Sector Communities Manager and GOSCON conference Chair with Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. Petty was on-hand to participate in the opening session, an…

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  12. Sarah Schacht of Knowledge As Power talks with Nate DiNiro of Open Affairs TV

    Sarah Schacht, Executive Director of Knowledge As Power, joined Nate DiNiro of Open Affairs Television to talk about the mission of the organization and other details about her career path and the ongoing open government movement. KAP helps citizens become informed and effective in the…

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  13. John Weathersby of OSSI with Nate DiNiro of OpenAffairs.TV

    John Weathersby, Executive Director of Open Source Software Institute joins Nate DiNiro to share some of the details about the mission of his organization, which is to promote the adoption of open source in federal, state and local government. OSSI helps government stakeholders identify and...

  14. Alan Foster of ForgeRock at 2010 GOSCON with Nate DiNiro of OpenAffairs.TV

    Allan explains the conditions which sparked the formation of ForgeRock, largely thanks to the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation. Allan speaks in depth about the effects the purchase has had on endangering several open source projects and communities, as well as the effect the...

  15. Ignite Gov Ending, Thanks To Everyone

    First-ever Ignite government comes to a close. Selena Deckelmann and Deb Bryant thank speakers, sponsors and supporters.

  16. The Government as Community Curator

    It's not enough to simply open data and have an API. Government needs to get better at fostering communities around all of it's services. To do this it needs to divest itself of some control and invest in communities that are already working. Curating existing communities around data and services...

  17. Learning from Bangalore: Urban Informatics at Street Level

    In this talk Zack describes a number of official and improvised uses of mobile and urban computing technology he's observed in urban India, especially Bangalore. In some cases a lack of traditional hard urban infrastructure directs people to create informational workarounds, in other cases…

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  18. The Value of Voice: How much is your tweet worth to legislators

    Do electeds and lawmakers weigh the importance communication styles differently? What's the going rate for a tweet on the political communications market these days? Do you really know what kind of impact you're making with that petition or form letter? In an advocacy world where everyone's got…

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  19. Designing and Developing Effective and Efficient Municipal Websites

    Rami Kassab is the CEO and co-founder of Typethink, a creative web design and development firm located in the heart of Portland. Rami headed Typethink's initiative to expand into the municipal sector through their custom web application development services. Typethink has since contracted with…

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  20. Principal Versus Law. How rules create crime, how Ideas prevent them

    Laws are a machine, and not a very smart one. Principles are living parts of your mind, and can adapt to new conditions. Accessing laws requires Expensive specialists, Principles are available to the understanding of all. Here we shall challenge the most basic idea of government, the Rule of Law....

  21. Operation Bearclaw: the real story behind OSS adoption in the US government

    Technical and economic benefits of open source software are well documented within the IT world. However, these traits alone are not what has enabled open source to find a home within much of the government's massive enterprise system. This presentation will reveal some of the seldom discussed…

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  22. GovHub: Open Source and Open Government Collaboration

    The GovHub presentation will have an introduction to the general ideals of GovHub and what we hope it will be, and then use 3 roles or characters to describe the problems when governments and open source developers try to work together and how GovHub and other collaboration tools like it can help...

  23. David Riley on the landscape of the CONNECT initiative

    In addition to his 2010 Government Open Source Conference keynote, David Riley joined us at the conference to talk about details of the CONNECT initiative, with health IT expert and OATV co-founder Jeremy Murtishaw. David outlines the basics of the project, as well as it's acceptance in the…

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  24. Better than Winning the World Series: Boston Opens Real-Time Transit Data

    What happens when you combine two risk-taking government employees, an active developer community, and a bus schedule? Unlimited amounts of innovation, improved customer service, praise for an embattled government agency, and a model for building a government/citizen developer partnership. Hear…

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  25. Why middleware is the key to a successful gov 2.0

    Max Ogden is a developer, open government and CouchDB enthusiast from Portland, OR. One of his recent projects, PDXAPI, is a developer interface to civic geo datasets in Portland, OR. Max recently accepted a position as a Code for America fellow for their inaugural 2011 Code for America…

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  26. Lessons Learned from a Regional Approach to Open Data and Civic Apps

    Skip Newberry serves as Economic Development Policy Advisor to Portland Mayor Sam Adams. A significant portion of Skip's work focuses on developing initiatives to support Portland's software and digital media industries. Last year, Skip's projects included helping to draft the City of Portland's...

  27. Give me back my Facebook: What you don't understand about Web users

    Abraham Hyatt is the production editor at the technology news site ReadWriteWeb. He was the creator of the Digital Journalism Portland conference in 2009, and previously worked as the managing editor at Oregon Business magazine. He can be found online at abrahamhyatt.com and @abrahamhyatt on...

  28. IgniteGov Intro & What is Ignite

    Deb Bryant introduces the first ever IgniteGov, and she invites the Gov community at-large to put on IgniteGov events. Selena Deckelmann, IgniteGov Chair, informs the audience about what to expect from an Ignite for those unfamiliar with the format.

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OpenAffairs TV covers open source technology, open government (Gov2.0) and healthcare technology. We bring reporting and interview people who are shaping the future of technology and government.

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