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The EU Ombudsman is running a consultation on how to improve the transparency of the TTIP negotiations.  This shouldn't be hard, ...

Prefixing concepts with the epithet "open" has become something of a fashion over the last decade. Beginning with open source,...

I've been trying to fathom what exactly Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital A...

Today is Document Freedom Day : It is a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats which takes place on ...

One of the core areas that Mozilla is working on is user privacy, and one important aspect of this is controlling cookies. Most people a...

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

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how businesses based around giving stuff away were able to make money by replacing far more expensive opt...

A fascinating trend in recent years has been the gradual move from a presumption of secrecy to one of openness, transparency and sharing. ...

One of the key inspirations for the free software movement was the scientific tradition of sharing information and building on the work of...

As you may have gathered, the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th birthday recently, since it was publicly announced for the first time on 6 ...

For some reason, I seem to be giving talks all over the place this month. I've already written about the one that I presented at the Eur...

Time for some more of that fashionable “open” goodness: Six companies that own and operate some of the largest networks in the world — Deuts...

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

Openness is inherently political, because it dares to assert that we little people have a right to see what the powerful would hide. There&#...

I've been a long-time fan of the 3D modelling program Blender . No surprise, then, that I've also been delighted to see the Blender...

You may have noticed there's a fair bit of interest in this cloud computing thing. You've probably also come across various articles...

I've been writing about all kinds of openness and sharing on this blog nearly five years now. Before that, I had been covering free sof...

Here's a hopeful sign: We're working to create a more open and less intrusive society. We want to restore Britain’s traditions of fr...

Here's an interesting project: the Open Course Library . These are its goals : * design 81 high enrollment courses for face-to-face, hy...

One of the subtlest ways of gaming the system is to hack the system before you even play - for example, by building in a bias that means you...