[Edit: I recommend that you read the comments, as the author of the poster has explained her reasons for creating it in more detail.] Yesterday, Glyn Moody linked approvingly to a poster on the G8Internet site, saying: "Failminism - http://bit.ly/mExbAz ever noticed how many women are involved in copyright enforcement initiatives? @sinkdeep has..." The fact … Continue reading Sideswipes
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Privacy, By Design
For me, the most interesting questions to come out of Saturday's open-space discussion of Privacy, By Design at CIS were those that focused around how the notion of 'privacy' is constructed and negotiated. For those who attended, please excuse me if I get your ideas all jumbled up! At the moment this is just a … Continue reading Privacy, By Design
Righting the Copyright Imbalance
I've put a long-overdue post up on the EFA blog about the Australian Digital Alliance's policy forum, 'Righting the Copyright Imbalance'.
“Come, brother, come, sister, look at this software!”: Activism and Play
Last Thursday night, I spent a couple of hours walking the streets of Bangalore with a strange assortment of others, shouting out Kannada variants of "Software! SOFTWAAARE! Get your software!" We had a push-cart, like the vegetable sellers here use, a heap of handwritten signs offering "Free software USB stick, only Rs 250!", and a … Continue reading “Come, brother, come, sister, look at this software!”: Activism and Play
Alipi
One of the projects I've been learning about while in Bangalore is Alipi, which is being developed by Janastu. Alipi is a Web accessibility project with a difference: it allows users to renarrate the Web, explaining Web content in ways that are more relevant and accessible for print-impaired communities. You can see a demonstration here. … Continue reading Alipi
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