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Alex Howard
Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Correspondent for
O’Reilly Media. Before joining O’Reilly, Howard was the associate
editor of SearchCompliance.com
at TechTarget. His work there
focused on how regulations affect IT operations, including issues of
data protection, privacy, security and enterprise IT strategy.
Howard’s previous work experience includes working in operations for
an e-business consultancy, as a
knowledge broker for a management
consulting firm, as an apprentice to a master home builder and, very briefly, as a garde manger at an 
Data for the public goodFrom healthcare to finance to emergency response, data holds immense potential to help citizens and government.
The explosion of big data, open data and social data offers new opportunities to address humanity's biggest challenges. The open question is no longer if data can be used for the public good, but how.
Building the health information infrastructure for the modern epatientDr. Farzad Mostashari on how the web, data and epatients are poised to revolutionize healthcare.
The National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, discusses patient empowerment, data access and ownership, and other important trends in healthcare.
A global pulse of big data, applied for goodAn animated introduction to the UN's Global Pulse initiative.
The United Nations Global Pulse initiative is an effort to harness the power of big data and analytics to better understanding how the world is changing. The video embedded below explains more about what UN Global Pulse is trying to achieve:
The bond between data and journalism grows strongerLiliana Bounegru discusses the state of data journalism and its growing influence.
This interview with Liliana Bounegru, project coordinator of Data Driven Journalism at the European Journalism Centre, offers more insight into why the importance of data journalism continues to grow in the age of big data.
Open innovation works in the public sector, say federal CTOsIn his last day in office, federal CTO Aneesh Chopra released an open innovation toolkit.
Speaking at a recent forum in Washington, federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said that the open innovation approach that can be seen across industry, from social networking to pharmaceuticals to manufacturing, has proven to be effective in the public sector. CTOs from HHS and the VA offered more case studies in success.
Jury to Eolas: Nobody owns the interactive webA decision to strike down patents to the "Interactive Web" is an important victory for the networked commons.
A Texas jury has struck down a company's claim to ownership of the interactive web. Eolas, which has been suing technology companies for more than a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patents.
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