Month: January 2018

  • Writing: Toward a New Model for Corporate Governance

    Today I published an essay called, “Toward a New Model for Corporate Governance” Here’s a snip: http://www.derivativeworks.com/2018/01/toward-a-new-model-for-corporate-governance.html

  • Panel: Hidden Signals Challenge

    Recently I took part in scoring entries for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Hidden Signals Challenge, a competition that “calls upon data innovators from a wide variety of fields—from data science, to civic tech, to epidemiology—to develop concepts for novel uses of existing data that will identify signals and achieve timelier alerts for biothreats…

  • ORD Camp: Back to Basics

    This morning I chaired an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at ORD Camp. 8 people attended, a mix of new members, old timers, and people who have alcoholics in their lives. Here’s the materials I created for the session, which might be useful in adapting for other conferences. Here’s a zip folder of all the…

  • Blue Button API Subcontract

    Blue Button API Subcontract

    Today Ad Hoc was awarded a subcontract under prime contractor Fearless Tech (8424693) to improve the Blue Button API. Here’s the award notice: cms-blue-button-award-january-218 and here’s the full description: Blue Button Api Contractor Will Be Responsible For The Primary Development Of The Django Server, Implementing A Developer Portal, And Any Other Integral Components Of The Blue Button…