Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policy. Show all posts
29 July 2014

The European Commission's Great TTIP Betrayal

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When the European Commission was laying the foundations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - TTIP, also known as T...
28 July 2013

TTIP's "Science-based" Assault on Democracy Begins

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Last month I predicted that one of the main tropes that would be used in the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations would by that of "science-based...
08 December 2012

Supplying The Missing Ingredient In Evidence-Based Policymaking: Evidence

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It seems extraordinary that in the area of copyright it is only recently that people have started to consider the evidence before formul...
14 October 2012

Stop the UK Badger Cull: Letter to My MP

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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...
12 October 2011

Microsoft's Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software Industry

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One of the striking changes at Microsoft over the last twenty years is how savvy it has become in terms of lobbying and influencing polit...
05 February 2010

Opening Our Eyes to the Tilted Playing-Field

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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...
26 November 2008

IBM's ex-Mr GNU/Linux Joins Obama Policy Group

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Good news: Irving Wladawsky-Berger , the person who essentially steered IBM toward GNU/Linux - with huge knock-on effects - has joined one o...
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13 July 2006

Croats Have a Go at...OSS Policy

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It seems that Croatia has joined the Euro-club of OSS enthusiasts. At least that's what I'm told . I really must get around to le...