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"Law is the operating system of our society ... So show me the manual!" Not alas, my witty words, but those found on the site ...

A recurrent theme here on Techdirt is the persistent lack of transparency during the drafting of new laws or the negotiation of new trea...

An increasing number of Open Enterprise posts are about moves to open up government in myriad ways. That's not really surprising, si...

Last month I wrote about the UK government's "Making Open Data Real" consultation. That's actually just the first par...

There seems to be something in the air (maybe it's the crazy weather): everyone is making “declarations”.  On Open Enterprise blog .

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the “ Making Data Real ”consultation, promising to post my response. I have to admit that replying ...

As I indicated yesterday, I have serious doubts about the UK government's policy on copyright. But while that has been something of a di...

As I've noted before, the UK government is now arguably the leader when it comes to open data. Of course, that's not really the poin...

Well, it seems to be Open Data week here on Computerworld UK. After my report on the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin, one of whose princ...

Unless you live in certain countries or read certain newspapers, you will have been deluged over the last few days with “revelations” from t...

Last week I went along to the Open World Forum in Paris. By that, I don't mean to imply I just bowled along there on the off-chance it m...

One of the heartening trends that I've noted in recent years is a gradually opening up of government around the world - in both directio...

Although I have a great deal of time (and respect) for Lawrence Lessig, I think his article "Against Transparency" is fundamental...

“Linux is subversive”: so begins “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” Eric Raymond's analysis of the open source way. The subversion there wa...

One of the most amazing - and heartening - developments in the world of openness recently has been the emergence of the open government move...

So, the forces of stupidity, arrogance, greed, laziness and downright bloody-mindedness prevailed, and the Digital Economy Bill has turned f...

One area that I have been covering increasingly is that of open government. The parallels with the other opens are not immediate, but there...

Yesterday I had an interesting chat with Paul Clarke, an advisor to government departments on digital strategy, and a man with fingers in ma...

There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...

The Australian government is emerging as one of the leaders in the sphere of open government. It has now published a draft report of the G...