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In the wake of the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti Tuesday, many concerned government, NGO and private sector technology folks from diverse organizations are mobilizing to help.



I’m especially proud of the fact that some of my friends and colleagues in the health and technology communities are leading the charge.

If you are a humanitarian assistance, international development, emergency response or other professional… Continue

Blood Donations Needed



Update – Friday , 11/6/09, 23:30



Blood donations for U.S. Army personnel wounded in the Ft. Hood shooting incident are being accepted at Scott & White Healthcare’s Blood Center in Temple, TX on Saturday, 11/7 from from 9:00 AM – noon local time and again on Monday, 11/9… Continue

Excellent: The short feature on the Rural Telehealth and Advanced Technologies Conference tomorrow in Loretto, PA is presently one of the top three posts on the new GoverningPeople.com website as of mid-day Thursday. Now that's Government 2.0 and social media in action, spreading the good word about technologies to help both our soldiers and citizens.

(The full text of this excerpted blog post appears on Mike Russell's blog at: blog.planetrussell.net)



As the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania heads into the 60th day of its marathon state budget impasse, that's… Continue

Progress of "Biodefense for the 21st Century" – A Five Year Evaluation



See: http://bit.ly/uR8n



January 15, 2009, 3:00 - 4:30 PM



Hudson Institute

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6th Floor

Washington, D.C. 20005



The Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) is pleased to invite you to a Roundtable on Interagency Reform discussing a case study on "Progress of… Continue