September 2011 Blog Posts (20)

Here are some examples of what's been written about the Tech@State: Data Visualization conference

that took place on September 23rd-24th.

"State and USAID Embrace Data Visualization to Promote Missions"

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Ended a long week of new discoveries with referrals to two terrific links:

http://socialmediasecurity.com/ and http://www.dana.org

Thanks to my informants (you know who you are).

 If you missed Tech@State:Data Visualization, watch it now on Ustream  

Keynote - Edward Tufte

 Plenary Session…

Partners &…

Can games get any more serious than this?

http://news.yahoo.com/online-gamers-crack-aids-enzyme-puzzle-175427367.html

DoS FAN Cloud: Guidelines to Shape Foreign Affairs Network (FAN)

As the Department of State (DoS) evolves and rolls-out its IT Strategic Plan (the DoS reference

architecture - RA ) to transform global eDiplomacy, development and foreign relations

efforts (the DoS mission and hence its business use case – BUC), a transformation

roadmap with guidelines for devising the DoS FAN Cloud to meet international mission

and business goals is…

Hi Techies!

I'm Caron De Mars, the Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Hub Officer for NEA.  We have a great opportunity this fall for a TDY web design professional to travel to Jordan, Israel, and Palestinian Territories through the support of our Embassy Science Fellows program.  I sit on a water information sharing committee set up in the early 90s as one of the Peace Process working groups.  Here is our very sad legacy website: …

Supporting Disaster Response and Coordination

Hemang Karelia (Moderator) – GFDRR.

Hemang brings…

Visualizations for Aid Transparency and Management

Michael Findley (Moderator) – BYU.

Dr. Michael Findley…

Best Practices for Visualization Interoperability

Tariq Khokhar (Moderator) –  The World Bank Open Data.

Tariq Khokhar joined the World Bank in June 2011 as our Open Data Evangelist. His interests lie…

Using Climate and Health Data to Monitor Food Insecure Areas

William Sonntag (Moderator) – EPA.

Mr.  Sonntag  currently  manages  a variety of initiatives for the USEPA Office  of  International  & Tribal Affairs on detail from the Office of Environmental…

State Department and USAID Data Visualization Projects

Suzanne Hall (Moderator) – Education & Cultural Affairs.

Scott Jones…

Mobile Technology and New Media: Trends and Opportunities 

Wayan Vota (Moderator) – Inveneo.

Wayan Vota is a senior…

New Ways to Visualize Development Data

Laura Kurgan (Moderator)…

The event is over now but the discussion goes on. Feel free to share your thoughts below. We've posted videos and interesting links below. 

Keynote - Edward Tufte

 Plenary Session

 …

The next Tech@State, scheduled for Sept 23-24, will feature new innovative and fascinating data visualization techniques.

Register here for Day 1 of the conference, which will be held in the Atrium and Foyers at the Kennedy Center. The keynote speaker will be Edward Tufte.  

Register here for the unconference…

Turning Information into Insight

Jaime Fitzgerald (Moderator) – Fitzgerald Analytics.

The Founder…

The next Tech@State, scheduled for Sept 23-24, will feature new innovative and fascinating data visualization techniques.

Register here for Day 1 of the conference, which will be held in the Atrium and Foyers at the Kennedy Center. The keynote speaker will be Edward Tufte.  

Register here for the unconference…

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