From: "Want to be a Corporate Archivist? It Sure Helps to be a Pack Rat" by Emily Glazer, Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2012
The article reiterates the importance of the "AADHAR" initiative to succeed for the country to achieve effective governance with a huge social impact.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/brewster-kahle/
The creation and maintenance of the Internet Archive and its associated collections are among the most ambitious projects that have been undertaken involving the preservation of information in the Internet age. They are also prime examples of core Organizing System concepts put into practice.
With the U.S. election day just two months away, news organizations, blogs, and social networks are abuzz with a constant state of attentiveness to the latest developments in the high-profile races for political power.
Network Medicine is a network based approach to decode complex diseases.
Immediately following a natural disaster, government representatives and Red Cross volunteers arrive on the scene en-masse. They bring not only supplies, shelters and expertise, but also information systems that facilitate disaster recovery. But when they disappear 3-5 days later, communities are left with no long-term systems to aid disaster recovery.
This article is inline with the Japanese Farm story we discussed in class this week, but without the use of GPS, cloud computing, sensors and other sophisticated technology employed on the Shinpuku Seika farm. The end goal is however similar, to the extent that technology is being leveraged to compensate for a lack of resources (trained, qualified people).