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I had been vaguely aware that the proposed cull of badgers in the UK was controversial, but had not fully realised that the evidence agains...

As promised, here is my submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee considering the UK government's Draft Communications Bill: O...

The Draft Communications Bill [. pdf ] is one of the most controversial pieces of UK legislation proposed in recent years - not least bec...

Here's an interesting move : Britons will be forced to apply online for government services such as student loans, driving licences, pas...

One of the core reasons why sharing works is that it spreads the effort, and avoids the constant re-invention of the wheel. One area that se...

The charmingly-named " Bottom-Up " is one of those blogs that I may not always agree with, but which I know will be intelligently ...

Crowdsourcing represents an interesting attempt to generalise the open source methodology to non-technical areas. The basic idea is to tap i...

Russia is rapidly turning into open source's best-kept secret. A little while back I wrote about plans to roll out free software to al...

Tom Steinberg has a simple request: he wants a million quid . If you want to know how I think mySociety could change the world, this is your...

Everyone knows that government is dull - dull, but very, very important. So a couple of recent moves in this dull but important world seem ...

Government won't make public data freely available? Simple: just stick it up online .

Chris Long tells it as it is: my concern about all this is the ignorance of the technical thinking behind these ideas; ideas that have appa...

Well, that's what I'd call it: the blog prefers "50 Open Source success stories in Business, Education, and Government". ...