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Techdirt has been following the fascinating saga of Iceland's  crowdsourced constitution  for nearly two years. Back in October 2012,...

Yesterday I wrote about India's opposition backing open source more fully, and here's a good update on what's happening in Sou...

Something must be done; this is something; therefore this must be done. Nice .

Politicians remain the ultimate dinosaurs in terms of openness: ideally, the rich and powerful would like to make their cosy deals - often a...

I love Italy - wonderful people, wonderful scenery, wonderful art, wonderful food, wonderful wine - well, you get the picture; but I do some...

Here's an interesting point from Google's Chris Dibona: Widely Available, Constantly Renewing, High Resolution Images of the Earth ...

This is worrying: politicians have discovered that open source is vaguely, well, groovy : "I am very impressed with the phenomenon of o...

If you ever wondered why, in the age of the global Internet, local newspapers still existed, read this . It begins as precisely the kind of...

A telling story here . A US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Broadcast Flag - which threatens to close down various kinds of conten...