(Matching tags: Civil Liberties,Censorship,Wikileaks,information,Department of Defense)
European Single Digital Market: Strategies and Contribution of LSPs was the focus of Mr. Vasilis Koulolias' presentation in the "europeone eGovernment conference" that took place the 3rd – 4th of December ...
(Matching tags: Civil Liberties,democracy,Citizens,empowerment,freedom of information,Freedom of Speech,Gov 2.0,Technology)
... are using the Web, not on how grassroots movements might be finding a voice.
Democracy is not just about voting for our leaders. Democracy is about citizens who have the information and freedom of communication ...
(Matching tags: Video,deliberation,Gov 2.0,democracy,freedom of information,Technology,Internet,empowerment)
Technology, Democracy & Empowerment.
The popular uprisings that have swept North Africa and the Middle East throughout the spring (I would be cautious not to associate it as bluntly with what ...
(Matching tags: Transparency,Internet,Freedom of Expression,European Union,Google,freedom of information,Censorship)
... service outages, the report’s Government Requests page breaks down the numbers on government takedown requests for each country in the form of a handy Google Map. This information can range ...
(Matching tags: freedom of information,twitter,Parliament,Gov 2.0,cameron)
British MPs resist a ban on tweeting power
Some people would think that the use of Twitter hardly seems like the kind of issue the British Parliament should concern itself with. Deputy Speaker ...
A Quest for relevance in the Engine
With East Africa facing its worst drought in 60 years, I wince more than ever at a quote by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: “A squirrel ...
(Matching tags: Wikileaks,information,Civil Liberties,Department of Defense,Censorship)
Thanks to some dogged nudging by the good folks at MuckRock.com, we now have a letter from Colonel Craig A. Smith (USAF) with an authoritative list of the websites blocked by the ...
(Matching tags: Department of Defense,freedom of information,Social Media)
... and influence which platforms like Twitter or Facebook cout potentially exercise on domestic and external politics. Information reveals that the U.S. Department of Defense called in experts to determine ...
(Matching tags: Wargames,freedom of information,Cyber war,Rushkoff,democracy)
... mass of individuals who will fight for justice, equality and democracy - to change the world by the simple means of information-sharing and interaction. Beyond Wargames' by Rushkoff, published in a book ...
(Matching tags: hackers,freedom of information,editorial,arrests)
Editorial?
This week we focused on the fight for freedom of information. Why? We found all the hot stories to be somehow related to it. On the one hand we have all in favor: the Anonymous, Wikileaks, ...