European Information Society architects are challenging the great giant. First Galileo was announced, which hopes to remove reliance by the EU on US sattelites. Now the huge market share being
After Christmas and New Year in the bosom of Hong Kong's criminal justice system, 11 of the remaining 14 anti-WTO protesters charged with illegal assembly have been
John Palmer looks at the paradox that confronts the EU in 2006: despite difficulties, EU expansion is set to continue in 2006. By the end of the year, there will
Sidney Blumenthal’s piece on openDemocracy describes how James Risen’s explosive book revealed evidence of Bush’s war on professionals. When they’re not distracted by getting Abramoff’s
Given my views (as expressed here on openDemocracy at the opening of last year's World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis) I was surprised to learn from
Slate has an interesting analysis of who may be effected by the Abramoff scandal on Capitol Hill. See it here. It doesnt look pretty for Tom DeLay for starters...
There's an interesting piece from Paul Staines, writing in The Times on 20th December 2005, about 'think tanks' actually operating as corporate lobbyists.
Interestingly, amongst those
The BBC's Open News Archive has finally opened to the public, allowing anybody to dowload, edit, and recycle video clips of momentous historical events - according to these terms
I was in Peru on Thursday, on a quick stopover on the way to Bolivia, and was surprised in Lima to see a giant house-sized banner in support of
Due to a high volume of targeted spam directed at openDemocracy's blogs, we have been obliged to disable the comment functions on oD Today. Normal service to be
Some technical news. We are having trouble with the comments function on this blog. At present it is unmoderated, which means anyone can post a comment, anonymously, any time. Unfortunately
The thousands of ministers, wonks and hacks who descended on Hong Kong last week have all now left, even those who stayed on after the WTO ministerial to scale Victoria
