The U.S. government proposed a more open, decentralized system, to be organized by the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

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He has devised a plausible alternative to the current open-ended, state-financed system: government-funded vouchers toward buying insurance.

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Beth Noveck, former deputy chief technology officer in the Obama administration, called for an open-source approach to rethinking government, making its operating system as accessible to everyone as the code that powers the Arduino device.

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Farmers in the region sell their soyabeans to intermediaries in open auctions at government-regulated wholesale markets called mandis, a system that was set up in order to protect farmers from unscrupulous buyers.

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Hence the voters' rejection of the old system in favour of something unfamiliar in Japan: an open and accountable government.

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TeraGrid, which is already the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system (exceeded only by the U.S. government's weapons-testing labs, which is "closed, " or isolated inside one institution), uses 16 different computer platforms and runs seven different operating systems.

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However, he also said that identifying these firms "will not convey a government subsidy, " leaving open an important question--how will the government treat large interconnected firms that could bring down the entire financial system.

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It is a danger to every single American who has become accustomed to a system where the federal government has promised us that it will create and save jobs, keep factories open, provide whatever health care we need, rebuild our houses if they are destroyed, and protect us from every form of prejudice and unfairness inflicted on us.

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