November 1, 2006
Does EU-Style Capitalism Cripple Innovation?
As a native German, I read with great interest a recent Wall Street Journal article by Edmund Phelps, Columbia University’s 2006 Nobel Prize winning economist. In the [...]
IGF Dispatch: No one has a monopoly on “Knowledge”
The phrase has been a popular refrain here at the Internet Governance Forum. While it certainly sounds good, it is being used to justify everything from tweaking [...]
IGF Dispatch: The Upside of Piracy
I love to watch Jamie Love speak because of fluidity with which he weaves the latest joke or theory into his discourse as though its established fact. [...]
October 31, 2006
IGF Dispatch: Selling Routers to Beijing: Corporate Responsibility under Repressive Regimes
Today there was a lot of talk at the IGF about corporate responsibility and censorship in repressive regimes. It was a wonderful opportunity to bash China, Yahoo, [...]
IGF Dispatch: Selling Routers to Beijing: Corporate Responsibility under Repressive Regimes
Okay, so it’s just a catchy title but an irony of this ridiculous debate about corporate responsibility just the same. Here at IGF in Athens, there’s a [...]
IGF Dispatch: All we need is a standard
Under the heading “let me just assert this and maybe people will believe it,” I keep hearing this argument about “open standards” being the metaphorical cure for [...]