This week brings the news that an US radar that launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon.

Behind the innovation and bleeding edge headlines must lie a lot of seemingly mundane collaboration between technologists in India and USA.
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eHealth development and implementation are prioritized areas in Europe, both on EU and National level. In March, a ministerial meeting on eHealth will be held in Barcelona in connection to eHealth Week 2010 and World of Health IT Conference where hopefully, some important issues on how to bring eHealth implementation and interoperability forward. In order to reach the goals set up in the i2010 eHealth Action Plan, actions need to be taken quickly.
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The Obama Administration has made eHealth deployment a prioritized issue and through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, approximately $ 19 billion was made available for spending in Healthcare IT infrastrucure.$ 17 billion were earmarked for incentive payments for the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs); this program is now starting to take shape.
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I have been invited to attend a conference called EuroCPR: Policies for a digital Europe: lessons learned and challenges. The agenda (pdf) has a session called Policy benchmarking and policy learning which I hope to attend. The basic idea of this session appears to be to learn from each other and to create conceptual and empirical Foundations of Cross-National Benchmarking of policy.
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There has been a lot of talk about the future of the Flash format especially after the launch of the iPad since both the iPad and the iPhone do not support Flash.

Like many people, I am a fan of HTML5 and recent developments in the evolution of HTML5 indicate that it will now become the technology of choice for all browser vendors. Flash is the current de-facto web standard for video.
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I have always been interested in Privacy, Security and Reputation from a research perspective. The Tech Policy blog has a good overview of the basics of Data privacy law to commemorate Data privacy day . They start by saying that ‘the United States doesn’t have a single, overarching data privacy law. Instead, data privacy is regulated by many different statutes and rules at the federal and state levels.’
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If you have been watching tech and media trends – you cannot miss the rise of 3D (three dimensional)) film (not to be confused with HD i.e. High definition video).

3D is significant because on one hand, the Web is a force that tends to commoditize content (movies, music etc) by changing the business model (a song sold for 99 cents on iTunes). In contrast, 3D offers an opportunity to reverse that trend by creating new sources of revenue.
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The proposed withdrawal of Google from China has gotten a lot of coverage lately. The issue indicates an extreme example of government involvement in ICT. Here are some ‘between the headlines’ insights from a standards perspective:
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Recently, Google posted a much publicised memo called the Meaning of Open in which Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management attempted to define Open. Attempting to define ‘Open’ is a complex task with many contradictions, and it is good that Jonathan has attempted this.
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Recently, ANSI responded to questions from Congressman Bart Gordan, chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, relating to standards and standardization.
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