Voting Machines
Open
Voting Foundation supports solutions for open voting. These solutions
include software using open standard specifications that can be inspected by the
public for flaws and even improved by the public. The software must also capture
and count votes in ways that the voter can verify individually and would be
statistically impossible to tamper with on any significant scale.
Diebold voting machines
critically flawed
Steven Heller says 'Diebold
Cannot be Trusted to Run Elections in America' (from
Brad Blog.)
Diebold vs
North Carolina Board of Elections
Election Problem
Log
Black Box Voting (this .Com
site is not the same as Bev Harris .Org site of the same name.).
One Laptop per Child
Video of a prototype
at SIGGRAPH
Desktop Machine
See Desktop page.
Healthcare
"The cost of caring for the elderly is huge and will only grow as our
population ages. Of the $440,000 the average American spends on health care in
his lifetime, $280,000 will be spent after age 65.
Probably 50% of that post-65 outlay goes to assisted-living facilities and
nursing homes. So it stands to reason that if there were a way to keep elderly
patients in their own homes longer - without degrading quality of care - we'd
have a cheaper and better system.
And we can do just that using technology. I'm talking everyday, low-cost
technology - the sensors, microchips, small radios you'd find in today's PCs, in
cellphones, and in Bluetooth earpieces. It's not too difficult to use this stuff
as monitoring tools. Not to spy, but to detect trouble. For example, did the
patient go outside to get the newspaper or did she wander away? Has the patient
taken his meds? The same technology that brings us HBO can watch over the
patient and trigger human intervention when needed.
A critical step to make this happen is to have it blessed - and reimbursed -
by the dominant health-care supplier to the aged, Medicare. Candidates, I hope
to see a phrase in your inauguration speech that starts like this: "I will have
Medicare define specifications for electronic equipment that allows the average
aging citizen to stay home two years longer than today."
Andy Grove
Bibliography
Business Guide to Free Information Technology by Tim Jowers and
Contributors