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Technology Trips Over Democracy in Kenya
by Calestous Juma In a spectacular technological failure, Kenyan officials recently abandoned the electronic transfer of election results and switched to manual tallying. This was not expected in a country that developed the now world-famous mobile money transfer system, … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, e-Government, Elections, Governance, Law
Tagged biometrics, elections, hersman, ifes, japakgis, kenya, safaricom, USAID, ushahidi, vodafone, voting
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The Stage 2 “Meaningful Use” of Electronic Health Records’ Proposed Rules: No Surprises
By Ashish K. Jha Late in the day on February 23, 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the preliminary rules for Stage 2 Meaningful Use. For those not deep in the weeds of Health Information Technology … Continue reading
