Activist Technology: An Interesting Coalition
Activist Technology is a loose coalition of technologists and political thinkers have been discussing activist technology and political uses of social software in conversations that began during the Howard Dean campaign, and have been carried forward over several platforms.More at http://www.activist-tech.org/This web site represents a step toward organization of those people and conversations into meetings, conferences and projects the intention of which is to support the evolution of computer-mediated participation in deliverance, political organization, and governance.
EU e-Health market is set to double in size within five years!
The 26 April 2005 edition of the European eGovernment News Roundup, reports that according to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan the European e-healthcare industry is moving towards consolidation and the market is set to double in size within five years.
Anticipated sustained investment in this field could mean that the market could be worth USD 6.34bn (EUR 4.8bn) in 2010.
Up until now the growth rate has primarily been achieved due to the active implementation of Hospital Clinical Information Systems (HIS) in the major markets across Europe.
The full article is available at the EU IDABC site (in english).
Also available from that page is a link to the full .pdf text of the European e-Health Action Plan adopted by the European Commission on 30 April 2004 – which aims to improve access to healthcare and boost the quality and effectiveness of health services offered across Europe.
We have a good team on that area (at e-HealthExpert) and we are not going to loose this boat too, are we?



















