Technology for Opening Up Government
Today's event on "open" and "participatory" government at Google's DC office was interesting, if inconclusive. We all agreed that making government more transparent and ready for participation by the citizenry [...]
ACT, Cambridge University and Birmingham University dream of EUtopia
“What does the entrepreneurial idyll look like?” This is the question a new report by the Association for Competitive Technology, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge (UK) and the [...]
FTC bans companies from selling scareware products
Yahoo!Tech reports that “[a]t the request of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has ordered two companies marketing supposed computer security products online to stop their efforts. [...]
Obama administration to roll our broadband and put more computers in schools
Yahoo!Tech writes that “[r]olling out broadband and putting more computers in schools will be pieces of a massive economic recovery package proposed by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, he has announced. [...]
IGF And The Secret War on Freedom of Speech (AMENDED)
Three years ago, the Financial Times published an op-ed by ACT president Jonathan Zuck regarding the first effort by governments like China, Iran, and Cuba to replace ICANN and its [...]
The Latest Fallout from the Financial Crisis – Governments Want to Bail Out The Internet
Here at the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Hyderabad, we saw yet another domino begin to fall in the growing financial crisis. Despite the lack of interest in [...]