This category contains posts that cover anything related to policymaking.
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 […]
Planet ready to say killing and death are wrong? Read More »
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
Metaverse Republic designing judiciary for Second Life Read More »
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
John Edwards announces presidential campaign in Second Life Read More »
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
Fifty Years of Europe Read More »
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
Italy’s attempt to censor over 500 websites Read More »
Geof Stone is guest-blogging on Lessig.org about dissent, and how politicized media or strong-arming politics can suppress it, or try tint it with shades implied guilt. One of the most commovent views at a trip I took to the US in November 2001 was a poster the width of the entire building, at the second
Dissent Is Not Un-American Read More »
The New York Times covers the signing ceremony of the European Constitution. 450 million people joined voluntarily to create the largest peaceful social experiment.
Largest peaceful social experiment Read More »
The enblogment by Lessig of Kerry is becoming a full blown applied memetics experiment, in both establishing the power of weblogs in spreading a neologism, and in establishing their influence. Winer’s page tracking the enblogments of the various candidates, and the Google tracker he posted will measure the spreading in the blogosphere, and on the
Memetics experiments around the elections Read More »
I remember when Gorbachev would talk about a connected world around 1987. It felt new, as his policies, and his hope of progressive reform. What a difference now! Anybody seeing today that the US unilateral policies and interventionist stances are a danger to the world, feel that while only US citizens are going to vote
A disenfranchised view of past feelings Read More »
Ok. That sounds pretty provocative. But how should one interpret the results of the latest Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International? Italy, where I live, is at the 42nd place with a score of 4.8 on a scale of 10. It is humbling to see the world’s sixth biggest economy achieve its position with
Italy’s more than half corrupt? Read More »
