The December issue of SCRIPTed is now online. In this issue: Editorial Mandy and Me: Some Thoughts on the Digital Economy Bill Lilian Edwards , pp.534-537 Reviewed Articles DNA Patents and the Invisible Citizen: The Role of the General Public in Life Science Governance Morten Andreasen and Klaus Hoeyer, pp.538-557 Read more
I’m in Costa Rica for the rest of the month. Why am I away? As the always excellent PhD comic accurately comments, nobody in academia works in December: Now, where did I put the suntan lotion?
While in the UK we are immersed in heated debate regarding the Digital Economy Bill, and the threat of ACTA looms large, I have read with interest an article by Peter Grundy in Wired UK about beta testing legislation before it is released to the public. Everyone familiar with web Read more
As the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change gets under way, environmental activists point the finger at the usual suspects: air travel, the internal combustion engine, wasteful spending, consuming non-local products, etc. However, we are seeing more and more questions asked about the carbon footprint of information and communication technologies. The Read more
The House of Lords debated yesterday the Digital Economy Bill, and I use the phrase “debate” in the loosest possible sense. What we got was a depressingly one-sided affair replete with misrepresentation, misunderstanding of the core issues, swallowing the industry’s figures without question, and corroboration that the House of Lords Read more