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5 hours ago India’s latest report on Non Personal Data, published by the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MEITY) Committee of Experts has defined parameters regarding who can seek Non Personal Data, High Value Datasets, what a community is and who can represent it as a trustee, rights over non personal data, sovereign access to data, meta-data directories, and addressed intellectual property concerns. They’ve exempt entire raw databases from data requests, taken...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  April 30, 2021 | 8:35 p.m. Santa Barbara County’s updated local coronavirus variant tracking data identified nearly 60% of the virus samples collected as variants of concern. UC Santa Barbara and Cottage Health have been collecting local virus samples since October in order to determine which virus variants may be circulating throughout the county.  The variant tracking teams have collected 291 samples in total, and whil...

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Housing and Development Newsletter » On Saturday, May 8, the Mixteco Indígena Community Organization Project (MICOP) and United Farmworkers (UFW) will be hosting a mobile clinic at 108 S. Pine St. in Santa Maria, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This clinic will be distributing the Moderna vaccine. » On Sunday, May 9, at the Goleta Valley Community Center, located at 5679 Hollister Ave. in Goleta, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This clinic will be distributing the Moderna vaccine. The county s...

Welcome to Noozhawk Asks, a new feature in which you ask the questions, you help decide what Noozhawk investigates, and you work with us to find the answers. Here’s how it works: You share your questions with us in the nearby box. In some cases, we may work with you to find the answers. In others, we may ask you to vote on your top choices to help us narrow the scope. And we’ll be regularly asking you for your feedback on a specific issue or topic. We also expect to work together with the r...

Welcome to Noozhawk Asks, a new feature in which you ask the questions, you help decide what Noozhawk investigates, and you work with us to find the answers. Here’s how it works: You share your questions with us in the nearby box. In some cases, we may work with you to find the answers. In others, we may ask you to vote on your top choices to help us narrow the scope. And we’ll be regularly asking you for your feedback on a specific issue or topic. We also expect to work together with the r...

Housing and Development Newsletter COVID patients were occupying only 2.6% of the county’s available, staffed ICU beds, according to Noozhawk’s data tracking. The county’s ICU availability rate fell to 25% on Wednesday, down from 29.9% on Tuesday. Of the new cases reported Wednesday, 14 were from Santa Barbara. The Lompoc Valley and the Santa Maria Valley each reported seven new cases, the Goleta Valley logged four, and the Santa Ynez Valley had two. Four cases were pending geographic loc...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  April 12, 2021 | 6:04 p.m. Cottage Health’s drive-up vaccination clinic at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital has 10,000 COVID-19 vaccination appointments available for the week. The hospital has 8,500 first-dose Pfizer appointments available for its clinic this week, open from Tuesday through Saturday, and an additional 1,500 second-dose appointments, according to Bob Behbehanian, director of marketing and consumerism at Co...

Housing and Development Newsletter “If you had your shot, please talk to your friends and neighbors about your experience with the vaccine,” he said. “Please encourage them to follow your example. Our vaccines are very safe, and adverse reactions are short-lived, quite manageable and well worth the protection we gain through the shot.” To date, Public Health has used nearly 84% of the 222,910 vaccine doses received from the federal and state governments, according to Do-Reynoso. The rem...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue  April 7, 2021 | 6:26 p.m. A Public Health mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is heading to Santa Barbara next Monday, and all community members ages 16 and older will be eligible to sign up for appointments starting Thursday. “We welcome all county residents, especially South County residents, to our site in Santa Barbara,” said Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso. “Invite your friends, family, and neighbors to take a...