Solana is right to enthuse about Wikipedia. What it shows is the power of what can be called co-creation.
Co-creation is very different from two things that have
Never mind the second coming and the fourth dimension, Nancy Skougor and Paul Hilder are sending out the call for a third force:
"We call for the just and
Doug Ireland, who is taking part in openDemocracy's debate Rethinking Iraq, says in his blog that "a political crackdown on blogging is coming in the US - thanks
Next week a team from openDemocracy will be off to the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in Madrid - for the past two months we've been running
The World Health Organisation estimates that 150,000 deaths each year can be attributed to the effects of climate. Will this figure rise as a result of global warming? What
"WHEN I visited America during my time working for Greenpeace International in the 1990s, time and again people would say to me 'we really don't approve
If you really want to be an American, there's a way to earn your passport. Don a gun, risk your life, wear a US uniform, and you might
The former prime minister of Canada, Kim Campbell gave a talk today at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York about the Summit on Democracy, Terrorism & Security in
Tereza Heinz Kerry was the main carrot for an event with the National Council for Research on Women yesterday. Unfortunately she had to cancel.
Speakers (apart from Heinz Kerry) were
Sad news. The day after the global "day of action" in support of Iranian bloggers Arash and Mojtaba, Arash Sigarchi was sentenced to 14 years in prison (via
Vee Artemis, writing in the climate change forum, reminded me of a discussion about the nature of activism on Paul Kingsnorth's blog. She wrote:
"Whilst our '
In the openDemocracy forums, Courtney Hamilton started a small firestorm when he expressed strong doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, first discussed in this blog here. Hamilton wrote:
Environmentalists have put
