by Kiran Sood | Nov 5, 2009 | Topics
In the battle for open government and transparency, there are winners and losers. On the upside, you have an informed public, greater access to information and a different kind of civic engagement and interaction. Yet there’s also the potential for negative...
by Kiran Sood | Nov 2, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Scientists and technology experts are the latest U.S. diplomatic weapon. At the National Science Foundation, for instance, science-related partnerships with foreign nations have yielded significant benefits, said Larry Weber, director of the Office...
by Kiran Sood | Oct 27, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – NASA should abandon plans to return to the moon – and it should also halt efforts for human exploration of Mars, a special panel commissioned by the White House said on Thursday. That’s because the human space flight program is unsustainable without...
by Kiran Sood | Oct 21, 2009 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Rural areas need greater access to high-speed Internet as the demand for digital technologies continues to increase, a panel of experts said this week. At “The Entrepreneurs’ March on Washington” on Tuesday afternoon, major players in the...
by Kiran Sood | Oct 14, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — For the first 100 people who get the OK, this Tweetup might just be out of this world. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s more than 140,000 Twitter followers are in for an unprecedented in-person opportunity this fall: NASA...
