Category: governance
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OpenTech ’09
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2009/ I attended the OpenTech ’09 forum on Saturday; organised by the UK Unix Users Group and friends at the University of London Union (ULU). For those interested in the social and political aspects of computing; this is an excellent forum to discuss new modes of political communication, privacy, advocacy and other issues that arise…
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What is globalisation?
Given the events of the past week (the G20 protests), I thought I would resurrect a video I made a couple of years back on the subject of ‘globalism’. It is the most popular video I made for the illustrious series ‘morning coffee with Craig’. It had 547 views…only 4 billion to go!
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‘Database state’ report
An interesting new report has recently been released from a senior researcher, Ian Brown, from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) . It charts the cost and scale of data collection and the methods used in data preservation and maintenance. As listed on the OII web site; the report has also been receiving a lot of…
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Labor’s ‘deafening silence’ as web censorship trials delayed
One of the largest ISPs signed up to participate in Labor’s ambitious internet censorship trials has said its application has been met with “deafening silence” from the Government, raising questions over the workability of the proposed scheme and the effectiveness of the trials. The Government originally planned to trial the mandatory internet filters before Christmas…
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Google: global search trends
Google has released some of its search results. Releasing results like this is extremely important as it gives citizens access to some of the ‘meta-narratives’ that influence our lives. If large corporation such as Google only have acesss to these ‘meta-narratives’; it means that they can manipulate these trends and patterns to their own advantage…