Last March, a community health activist in Myanmar published a warning about escalating violence. By Wednesday, it vanished, flagged, filtered, and di...
By Simon Cocking, review of DEMOCRACY: A User's Guide. Available from Amazon here.
How "Free" are we? How democratic are our so-called "Democracies"?
Is i...
The DCU Institute for Future Media and Journalism (FuJo) will lead a €2.4 million EU project to tackle the issue of “fake news” by tracking and flagging online disinformation, especially through social media.
The three-year project, called PROVEN...
By @SimonCocking a review of The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age, by James Crabtree, Oneworld (UK); Tim Duggan Books (US). Shortlisted...
Edward Snowden, who is President of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, will be interviewed by Paul C Dwyer, President of the International Cyber Thr...
The birthplace of Democracy is experiencing a few problems in the area of governance. One solution that’s been suggested could be an important new direction for us all: governed blockchain.
The financial crisis of 2008 gave birth to a ...
By @SimonCocking review of Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise our Lives, by Annie Lowrey, WH Allen (UK), Crown (US)
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Trump administration finally began taking a serious look at cybersecurity. Now unable to deny the more-than-likely existence of Russ...
Describe Scotland’s democracy today.
We are 21st century citizens, with archaic 19th century vote institutions, using 15th century pieces of paper. Hopefully to the amusement of Scotland’s Germans for Indy YES, we might indeed consider referring t...
