The change, when it came, was small enough, modifying Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to add to the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com
It would be easy to dismiss the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Tunis on 16-18 November 2005 as just another United Nations-sponsored
The internet we know today traces its lineage back to 1968 and the ARPANET research network that linked together computers at four US universities. Although it is often presented as
The World Wide Web is dead. Like a cartoon character running off a cliff but making it some way out into space before awareness brings gravity back into operation, it
If you work for Microsoft and many people are happy to do so then one of the things you fear is a critical email from Bill Gates, company founder and
On 7 October the hosting company Rackspace removed two web servers from their London office and handed them over to unnamed United States authorities. They did so in response to
Follow the debate on p2p: the new information war from the start
Siva makes a reasonable response to some of my arguments, though Id say we are still a
In his essay Siva Vaidhyanathan works hard to establish the cultural and political significance of the growing number of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking tools that have come into general use on
