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Beyond Open Access to the Effective Use of Information: Community Informatics...
I’m personally a very strong supporter of “Open Access” (OA) . I feel that information should be freely accessible and particularly information that has been produced with public funding which includes...
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The Last Quintile (20%): Doing Community Informatics for Social Inclusion in...
Regulators, policy makers, access suppliers in Developed Countries have a considerable pre-occupation with how to bridge “the last mile” i.e. the gap between the common carrier and the end user’s...
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Open Data (2): Effective Data Use
My previous blogpost on Open Data went viral (going from an average of 80 hits for each new blogpost to roughly 4000 hits in two days!), after being commented on by several leading open data advocates...
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WikiLeaks, Open Information and Effective Use: Exploring the Limits of Open...
WikiLeaks is Open Information writ large. …the Open Information Foundation (has the intention) to bring to the world of information, what Open Source had brought to the world of software. Namely, the...
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Egypt: From the Iron Rule of Tyranny to the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Can ICT...
There are current disputes within the blogisariat about the role and significance of social media and other technologies in animating, enabling, and empowering the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia....
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Louder Voices and Learning Networks
There is a stream of contemporary thought (with which I generally agree) which sees knowledge as being largely produced and disseminated by and through networks. That is, networks—social, technical,...
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A Data Divide? Data “Haves” and “Have Nots” and Open (Government) Data
The notion and substance of a “Digital Divide” has been very extensively discussed and researched. The definition, at its most basic, is that the “Digital Divide” is the “divide” between those who...
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Gmail Hell(2), an Epilogue: They are the Borg and they are Too Big To Be...
After some 6 days of being unable to access or use my primary email address or account with gmail, as suddenly as it started the floodgates opened and I was once again able to communicate and feel in...
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The Mobile Revolution and the Rise and Rise of Possessive Individualism?
As per the just published World Bank 2012 Information and Communications for Development: Maximizing Mobile the world of ICT4Development (ICT4D) has been undergoing some truly profound changes and...
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Snowden isn’t just about Surveillance. It is much, Much, MUCH worse…
A colleague points out that Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) server is suddenly running extremely slowly just as the Caucus is attempting to reach consensus on an endorsement of the Brazil President’s...
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The Right to Remember: A Speculative Community Informatics approach to “the...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a recent and widely discussed decision is requiring Google to consider individuals’ requests to remove links that they say infringe on their privacy. Much of...
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