"Vilket politiskt parti i Sverige bryr sig om den digitala klyftan och anser att vi ska skapa ett informationssamhälle för alla? Tillgång till Internet är en tydlig klassfråga, närmare hälften av dem med låg utbildning och låg inkomst använder inte Intern
FOSS ILS in Academic Libraries. A map of academic libraries using a FOSS ILS. Data from http://www.librarytechnology.org/libwebcats/ - Koha (yellow) - Evergreen (green) - OPALS (purple) - NewGenLib (red)
Governments and companies pushing for greater monitoring of Internet activity pose a major threat to freedom and democracy, according to Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Questions: 1) Net neutrality. 2) Government data. ("t's better if dat
Nicklas Lundblads översikt (29.10.2009) av David G Posts "In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace" (OUP) och Manuel Castells senaste bok, Communication Power OUP). "Vi måste våga tänka tanken att nätet är en ny sorts älg". Skrib
May 2008. The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans’ technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world. Com
Si le filtrage du moteur Google.cn était un arrangement d’ordre pratique avec un pouvoir qui entend lutter contre le free flow of information, Google a fini par reconnaître que les exigences du gouvernement chinois entraient de manière fondamentale en con
On November 15, at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), OpenNet Initiative (ONI) partners were set to hold a reception for the as-yet-unreleased volume Access Controlled, in a room which ONI had been given permission to use for
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We need a new phrase to describe this way that individuals act in concert and groups add up to more than the sum of their parts. Let's call it rugged collectivism (RC). RC is about a community pulling itself up by its collective bootstrap. RC is how a
Mar. 01, 1995 By STEWART BRAND (editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, founder of The Well etc.) : "As Steven Levy chronicled in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, there were three generations of youthful computer programmers who deli
"The author of one of the most rigorous of the websites that aim to debunk the conspiracy theories, Debunking911.com, notes that the most recent Zogby poll on attitudes towards 9/11 found only 4.6 per cent of Americans believe the Bush administration blew
Today (24 March 2010) two computer security researchers, Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm, released a draft of a forthcoming research paper in which they present evidence that certificate authorities (CAs) may be cooperating with government agencies to
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