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 →

Being present in public space

There's a line from one of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books about homeless people that sticks in my mind: all that anyone wants from them is their absence. But everyone has to be somewhere. In cities throughout the world, there are struggles going on over who gets to be present in public spaces, and what … Continue reading Being present in public space →