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Image by OpenDemocracy Al Gore is in Rome this Thursday for the launch of the Italian edition of Current, his television channel around user generated content, and I am among the dozen or two people invited to meet him for a couple of hours’ conversation. The questions we are going to ask him were themselves […]
At ETech last week in San Diego I had the privilege to sit down with Larry Lessig after his keynote, and chat about his endorsement of Barack Obama, why he thinks he will be a great President, and about the best use of technology to enhance active participation in the political process. Here is the
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The changes necessary to keep our societies aligned with the needs of a desirable future can only be accomplished by those who belong to that future. Barack Obama is a choice for a desirable future. It also helps that, according to the Washington Post’s political compass survey, my views are strongly aligned with his. The
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The printed edition of the ‘Corriere della Sera‘ has an article today about the unintended side effects of the site filtering system that Vodafone put in place recently to supposedly protect minors from adult materials while browsing the web using the Vodafone Live! application suite. As reported in Italian by Stefano, the author of Quinta’s
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I spent this weekend in Sebastopol, where I took part in the gathering of 30 open government advocates to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the
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Death is not the solution. Death is the problem. The UN has started the final procedures to put to a vote in front of the General Assembly a resolution for a universal moratorium on the death penalty. While not binding, the adoption of a resolution like this would be a further step towards an understanding
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Photo by ‘nailbender’ The rule of law is at the basis of human societies. What kind of rule, law, and society, is of course the important detail that defines the opportunities for a healthy, wealthy, and happy community which can express the full potential of its members. The new medium of those online worlds can
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Today on the Second Life News Network there is the news that at least one of the presidential candidates at the 2008 elections in the United States, John Edwards, is going to conduct a campaign within Second Life as well. I have mentioned this possibility just two weeks ago at a talk I held about
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Bruce Sterling points to a nice article in the Guardian about the latest round of enlargement of the European Union, and observes: “It’s worth pointing out that nobody’s ever clamored to join an empire before. Yeah, that’s pretty weird behavior for an organization that’s supposed to be dull.“ I have been talking about this with
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In the recesses of the 2006 budget approved by the Italian parliament (pdf) a curious element was found to be lurking at §536 (!), and its effect started to be felt around mid february: Internet censorship in the heart of the EU. China, Saudi Arabia, Yemen are more frequently found in articles or blog posts
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