Amnesty International is starting a campaign in favour of freedom of expression online. The organisation claims that there is growing governmental control over blogs, chat rooms and websites where governments try to re-assert their control over cyberspace, and more importantly, about criticisms exercised in the vast virtual world. The best Read more
Different reports are coming from the meeting earlier this week on the polictics of IPRs, organised by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). You can browse several reports from Patenting Lives, Axel H Horns and IP Watch. The meeting had quite an amazing number of experts brought together, and it Read more
The wireless roadshow is a project that creates very cheap wireless solutions that use cans and cheap circuits, and takes it to developing countries, where they can be used to connect to remote communities to the internet at very little cost. This I believe is the way of the future, Read more
(Warning: The link takes you to an article that uses the title “Bridging the digital divide”; how original!) How do you make sure that people in developing countries have access to information technology? By making it cheap. Very cheap. Famous technologist from MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte and other associates Read more
This is a rather good report in The Register that talks about the digital divide in the United States, where internet access is still the realm of the high-income white guy. The idea of the cosmopolitan world wide web is still a fantasy, as the average netizen tends to be Read more
Researchers testifying to the U.S. Senate have expressed that porn is more harmful and addictive than hard drugs like cocaine, leading to “addiction, misogyny, pedophilia, boob jobs and erectile dysfunction”. They want more research about porn. Is a ban in sight? Hide your porn, quick!