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Added by techATstate on September 22, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Can games get any more serious than this?

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

 

Added by techATstate on September 21, 2011 at 7:46pm — No Comments

Supporting Disaster Response and Coordination - Panelist Bios & Photos

Supporting Disaster Response and Coordination

 

Hemang Karelia (Moderator)GFDRR.

Hemang brings…

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Added by techATstate on September 12, 2011 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Visualizations for Aid Transparency and Management - Panelist Bios & Photos

Visualizations for Aid Transparency and Management

  

Michael Findley (Moderator)BYU.

Dr. Michael Findley…

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Added by techATstate on September 12, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

Best Practices for Visualization Interoperability - Panelist Bios & Photos

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…

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Added by techATstate on September 12, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Using Climate and Health Data to Monitor Food Insecure Areas - Panelist Bios & Photos

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…

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Added by techATstate on September 9, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

State Department and USAID Data Visualization Projects - Panelist Bios & Photos

State Department and USAID Data Visualization Projects

 

Suzanne Hall (Moderator)Education & Cultural Affairs.

 

Scott Jones…

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Added by techATstate on September 9, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Mobile Technology and New Media: Trends and Opportunities - Panelist Bios & Photos

Mobile Technology and New Media: Trends and Opportunities 

Wayan Vota (Moderator) – Inveneo.

Wayan Vota is a senior…

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Added by techATstate on September 9, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments

New Ways to Visualize Development Data - Panelist Bios & Photos

New Ways to Visualize Development Data

 

 

Laura Kurgan (Moderator)…

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Added by techATstate on September 9, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Summary for Data Visualization Event September 23-24, 2011

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

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Added by techATstate on September 8, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Tech@State: Data Visualization Scheduled for September 23-24

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.  

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Added by techATstate on September 8, 2011 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Turning Information into Insight - Panelist Bios & Photos

 

 

Turning Information into Insight

  

Jaime Fitzgerald (Moderator) – Fitzgerald Analytics.

The Founder…

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Added by techATstate on September 8, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Serious Games content and scheduling for May 27-28

The event is over now but the discussion goes on. Feel free to share your thoughts below. We've posted videos and pictures and here are some presentations and documents from the speakers. Others are too large but we're creating a way to share those and will post that soon.

 

Storify of Serious Games…

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Added by techATstate on June 3, 2011 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Serious Games Speaker Bios

These are some of the great speakers that will be at the upcoming Tech@State:Serious Games.

Saad Khan

Saad Khan Saad Khan is a partner at CMEA Capital and leads their digital media and Web efforts. This includes seed and early stage investments in crowdsourcing companies Pixazza, Blekko, and LiveOps as well as Jobvite and Evolution Robotics. Prior to CMEA, Saad was a Venture Partner at Garage.com where he helped build Silicon…

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Added by techATstate on May 22, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Serious Games videos and presentations

What are the best videos and presentations on serious games?



In the interest of framing the conversation ahead of Tech@State: Serious Games coming May 27-28, we're compiling the best shows on the topic. Some may not "get" the value of serious games, and others may have a different take, so we want to have a video library that can both inform and shape our conversation. We've added a few here but welcome your suggestions on what we all should watch so we're ready to talk Serious… Continue

Added by techATstate on April 1, 2011 at 10:14am — No Comments

Serious Games, May 27-28 @ the Newseum

Tech@State will next explore games, the serious games that teach, train and solve problems in ways the real world may not always allow. By bringing parties together in a virtual setting with defined rules and constraints, a serious game can help players understand a complex problem, empathize with an adversary, accomplish an otherwise unwieldy task, or develop a new model for business or governance. Leveraging technology to compartmentalize the chaos of the real world, the gaming experience can… Continue

Added by techATstate on March 22, 2011 at 4:15pm — 30 Comments

coverage of Tech@State: Open Source

If you find others, please add them in the comments section ...

 

Parsing open source at the State Department

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/02/open-source-tech-at-state.html



Tech@State: Oh, the places we STILL need to go...…

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Added by techATstate on March 7, 2011 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Get Schooled: Kids and Cybersecurity, May 3 at State Department

The Office of Computer Security (DS/SI/CS) is pleased to present…

 

 

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Added by techATstate on March 3, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Can social media help rebuild?

Social media have played a significant role in recent protests and the resulting changes taking place in Middle East and North Africa. There may also be a significant role for social media going forward as these nations continue to change.  What do you think?  Tech@State and eDiplomacy may explore this issue as a conference or program but we'd like to hear your thoughts first.

Added by techATstate on March 2, 2011 at 10:54am — 13 Comments

Next Topic Suggestions: Who, What, Where

We're working on our next Tech@State event and are entertaining topic/speaker ideas. We're having internal discussions, but we also wanted to throw it open to any and all of you to offer your suggestions. Given the mission of bringing technology to diplomacy and development, and convening the right people to create new collaborations, what should we cover next? Who should we have speak? And where should we hold the event? There may be an excellent package of people/ideas/venue that could make… Continue

Added by techATstate on February 18, 2011 at 9:06am — 21 Comments

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