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Who wants a working Internet? – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on the Net.Wars column on pelicancrossing.net on March 3rd 2017 “I thought the phone company would do it all,” John Connolly…
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Wikimedia UK Education Summit #WMUKED17
Blog post by Josie Fraser, educational technologist and trustee of Wikimedia UK (originally published on the Wikimedia Blog) If you would like…
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by Wikimedia UK and Middlesex University Monday, 20 February 2017 from 10:00 to 17:15 (GMT) Hendon, United Kingdom The Wikimedia UK Education Summit,…
Read More »Facts are scarred – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on pelicancrossing.net The late Simon Hoggart once wrote that the reason to take the trouble to debunk apparently harmless paranormal…
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Digital Democracy Manifesto workshop
Digital Democracy Manifesto team for an afternoon workshop on 27 November at Newspeak House exploring digital deliberation and how can we can design online…
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The illusion of sovereignty – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
In the mid 1990s, John Perry Barlow, who later (1996) fleshed out his thinking in A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, used…
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Give people the vote and they will come – 18th October 2016
Recent EU Referendum in UK had a relatively high turnout and showed people’s appetite for direct democracy. On 18th October, Cybersalon.org jointly…
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Give people a vote and they will come – 18th October 2016
Digital Direct Democracy activists are invited to our next meet up on 18th October at 7PM Newspeak House A discussion of the tools…
Read More » Unlinked – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
Originally posted on pelicancrossing.net When he was creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee did two things of note. The first was…
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Return of the penguin – NetWars by Wendy Grossman
Originally published on net.wars Back in January, a motherboard malfunction led me to move my desktop machine to Linux. Some effort later, and I…
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