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Commonwealth Meets with South Coast Leaders on Ways to Grow Culture of Entrepreneurship
DARTMOUTH – Today, state officials including Housing and Economic Development Secretary Gregory Bialecki and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative CEO Pamela Goldberg, joined business and community leaders from the South Coast to discuss ways to enhance local entrepreneurship and highlight the expansion of a program to support entrepreneurs into the South Coast region. The event at The Dartmouth Grange was highlighted by the introduction of Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) a Lowell and Lawrence-based non-profit that works to strengthen business creation, idea generation, mentorship, and capital formation.
Read MoreApplications Open for eHealth eQuality Incentive Program
WESTBOROUGH, MA – Wednesday, November 5, 2014 – The application period is now open for the eQuality Incentive Program (eQIP), a new program led by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MeHI). eQIP will provide eligible behavioral healthcare provider organizations in Massachusetts with access to financial incentives for adopting health information technology such as electronic health records (EHRs).
Read MoreMass Big Data Tech Trek Launched
Top students from Massachusetts institutions "trek" to local Big Data companies to meet with company founders, hear from leading data scientists, connect with other students, and experience incubation lab environments.
Read MoreMass EduData Challenge Winners Use Advanced Analytics and Open Data to Deliver New Insights
BOSTON – The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative recently announced the winners of the first ever Mass EduData Challenge. The pilot six-week data challenge aimed at acquiring unique insights from a comprehensive cache of Massachusetts education data, awarded prizes to three teams at the July 15th awards ceremony at hack/reduce in Cambridge. The three winning projects each addressed a different aspect of the central theme of driving better insight and understanding from historical data sets provided by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). Winners included collaborative teams from local non-profit City Year, and from global technology company Xerox, as well as individual data analysts from the region.
Read MoreNew Study Highlights Growing Support for Health Information Technology in Massachusetts
BOSTON- A study released today by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech (MeHI) highlights growing adoption and acceptance of health information technologies, or Health IT, by healthcare providers in the Commonwealth, as well as strong consumer support for the use of technologies that electronically store and share health data. The survey data is includeDownload the 2014 MeHI Provider and Consumer Health IT Research Study d in the 2014 MeHI Provider and Consumer Health IT Research Study, which launched today during an event at the Massachusetts State House.
Read MoreData Rules the Road: Massachusetts Driving Habits Revealed in Data Challenge
Insights Gained Through Data Competition Significant, Will Inform Policy
Read MoreGovernor Patrick Announces Funding to Launch Massachusetts Open Cloud Project, Celebrates Release of 2014 Mass Big Data Report
HOLYOKE – Friday, April 25, 2014 – Governor Deval Patrick today announced a $3 million capital investment to launch the Massachusetts Open Cloud project, a university-industry collaboration designed to create a new public cloud computing infrastructure to spur big data innovation. Governor Patrick also announced the release of the 2014 Mass Big Data Report, which confirms the continued growth and competitiveness of the Commonwealth’s big data industry.
Read MoreMassachusetts Organizations Announce Competition for Best Insights Discovered in New Transportation Data
BOSTON – The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT), and the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) today opened a public competition, The 37Billion Mile Data Challenge, designed to inspire the technical community to delve into a new trove of anonymous vehicle-use data and discover insights that can inform policy and help the Commonwealth build a more efficient and sustainable transportation system.
Read MoreConstruction, Turnover Complete on New 1,200 Mile Fiber Backbone for Western and Central Massachusetts
WESTBOROUGH – The Massachusetts Broadband Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MBI) recently completed construction and testing of MassBroadband 123, a 1,200-mile fiber-optic network bringing high-speed Internet access directly to 1,200 key facilities in more than 120 western and central Massachusetts communities. MassBroadband 123 is a critical component of the Commonwealth’s strategy to invest in innovation infrastructure in order to create growth and economic opportunity in every corner of the Commonwealth.
Read MoreStudy Shows Innovation Economy Drives Job Growth & Investment, Brings New Residents to Massachusetts
BOSTON – Nearly 40 percent of the jobs in Massachusetts are in the innovation economy, more than any other state, according to a study released today by the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The Annual Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy, which benchmarks the performance of the Commonwealth in key industry sectors, also shows that Massachusetts added roughly 50,000 new innovation economy jobs since 2006.
Read MoreMassBigData.org Launched to Highlight and Connect the Commonwealth’s Data & Analytics Ecosystem
Massachusetts Big Data Community Encouraged to Share and View Events, Company Information, Access Public Data Sets, and Job Postings via New Centralized Web Resource
Read MoreMassBigData.org Launched to Highlight and Connect the Commonwealth’s Data & Analytics Ecosystem
BOSTON – Today, MassTech announced the official launch of MassBigData.org, a web portal which aims to bring together the Big Data community in Massachusetts and help drive increased awareness, learning, and business activity in the advanced analytics sector. MassBigData.org is a project of the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative, launched by Governor Patrick to leverage and expand the Commonwealth’s position as a global leader in the rapidly growing big data ecosystem.
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