Where Are The Post-WikiLeaks Digital Whistleblowers?
Following WikiLeaks' dramatic arrival on the global stage, a host of digital whistleblowing groups emerged ready to use new media to shake up the old order. So why has the expected deluge of...
View ArticleThe Week In Data
After an all too brief summer break, our weekly data digest returns to explore murder in the US, the meaning of a neighbourhood, Great British Bands and the farthest reaches of the galaxy. It's The...
View ArticleThe Cyber Cold War
In the battle for control of the Internet, the US holds most of the cards. Now Russia and China are calling for greater individual state power, while others argue the UN is best placed to manage the...
View ArticleMeet the HackerMoms
In California, a group of mothers and hacking enthusiasts have created one of the world's first hacker-crèches, a place to find support, friendship and creative fulfillment.
View ArticleThe Associated Whistleblowing Press
The founders of the Associated Whistleblowing Press, the latest project designed to facilitate whistleblower leaks, aim to learn the lessons of the WikiLeaks project - and focus on making an impact at...
View ArticleThe Week In Data
This week we look inside a radio station (via Twitter), examine the role of money in the US Presidential election, track murder in Guatemala and explore the age when we are at our most creative. It's...
View Article13 of the Newest Political and Civic Tools
As the US presidential election draws ever nearer, Matt Stempeck rounds up 13 new tools that leverage digital technology to impact at the political and civic level.
View ArticleWestern Spy Tech Linked to Bahrain Regime
Further evidence of western technology being used by Arab regimes to spy on activists. FinFisher, the makers of the spyware, were identified by Owni & WikiLeaks last year as part of the global...
View Article‘Dying With Dignity is Better Than Living as Slaves’
In Bahrain, a leading human rights activist has just been sentenced to life imprisonment, having been brutally tortured and raped. His daughter and other activists also languish in cells, for...
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The Associated Whistleblowing Press
Beyond the judicial and diplomatic entanglements of its founder Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks project continues. Similar whistleblowing projects have been multiplying, albeit without much success to...
View ArticleDatagate: When money follows journalism
Data journalism is the new cutting-edge trend. Journalists, developers and user are torn between hope and despair that using data will give a well-needed boost to the journalism industry. Yet one...
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The Associated Whistleblowing Press
Beyond the judicial and diplomatic entanglements of its founder Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks project continues. Similar whistleblowing projects have been multiplying, albeit without much success to...
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Keeping ISPs transparent and honest
In his review of Tim Wu’s The Master Switch, Evgeny Morozov writes: Net neutrality is a simple idea with powerful implications. A neutral net would, for example, prevent cable providers from slowing...
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#Publicidadoficial Campaign exposes corruption in Calderon’s government
In April 1982 then-President José López Portillo ordered all government agencies in Mexico to cancel their advertising contracts with Proceso Magazine. It was well known that López Portillo ran one of...
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The death of Fame: anonymity in the age of digital activism
There are two crucial ingredients of successful digital activism and online civic participation that receive little attention: fame and anonymity. Last week I was having beers with some of Mexico...
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Anonymous Intervene As Mexico’s Drug Wars Move Online
Last month a group claiming to represent Anonymous in the Mexican region of Veracruz announced the beginning of Operation Cartel (#OpCartel), threatening to exposes members and associates of a Mexican...
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The Associated Whistleblowing Press
Beyond the judicial and diplomatic entanglements of its founder Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks project continues. Similar whistleblowing projects have been multiplying, albeit without much success to...
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