CATEGORY: Volume 41.04 Winter 2012

Digital frontiers

Digital frontiers

From Tunisia to China, activists and journalists are using technology to get vital news out and bring about change. As the battle to control information continues – from government surveillance, online blocking and big business to hacktivists and protesters – Index looks at the key players in the fight for digital freedom.
Includes articles by: Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman; Gabriella Coleman; Jennifer Granick; Milton Mueller; Pranesh Prakash; Eric King; Hu Yong; Ahmed Mansoor; Alex MacGillivray; Heather Ford

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Trade secrets

Trade secrets

Surveillance technology destroys political opposition more effectively than guns or grenades. And it’s big business.

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Internet revolution in crisis

Internet revolution in crisis

WCIT 12: Milton Mueller asks if governments are turning their backs on the global internet? A push to change the business model that delivers online content could stifle innovation and make the net an instrument of sovereignty, stuck behind national walled gardens

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