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Our mission
openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.
We are not about any one set of issues, but about principles and the arguments and debates about those principles.
openDemocracy believes there is an urgent need for a global culture of views and argument that is:
- Serious, thoughtful and attractively written
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- Open to ideas and submissions from anywhere, part of a global human conversation that is not distorted by parochial national interests.
- Original and creative, able to propose and debate solutions to the real problems that we all face.
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Our values
openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice.
Our work
We publish daily on our main site http://www.opendemocracy.net, with our small team of staff and dedicated volunteers.
openDemocracy also encourages submissions from new and established writers, wherever they are and whatever the topic. All submissions are reviewed by our group of editors who decide on publication.
openDemocracy encourages special editorial projects which are part of openDemocracy but are run autonomously with their own funding.
Current editorial projects include: openDemocracyRussia, OurKingdom, openEconomy, 50.50, openIndia and others.
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Our history
openDemocracy was launched in May 2001, before 9/11. We said the world needed a wider and wiser debate on globalisation, with contributors from every country.
The site won an international readership with its response to the attacks on New York and Washington. The authority and quality of openDemocracy is now recognised and respected everywhere.
Its first editor in chief was Anthony Barnett. He was succeeded by Isabel Hilton. Tony Curzon Price became editor in chief in 2007.
Our status
openDemocracy.net is published by openDemocracy Limited, a UK registered company (#3855274) limited by shares and wholly owned by the non-profit openDemocracy Foundation for the Advancement of Global Education (company limited by guarantee #04807614). The directors of the Foundation are David Elstein, Anthony Barnett, Tony Curzon Price, Julian Stern, Elaine Potter, Susan Richards, John Jackson and Michael Mitchell.
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