The Broken Promise of the #SharingEconomy »

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3 February 2016 | Ralf Grötker, journalist

Book Review: What's Yours Is Mine (2016) by Tom Slee Why bother buying and owning a power drill? Over the course of years, the machine will actually be used only a couple of minutes. Why not shar... »

People Before Tech – Social Change & Digital Empowerment »

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2 December 2015 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Book review: Geek Heresy, Rescuing social change from the cult of technology by Kentaro Toyama In 2004 computer engineer Kentaro Toyama started up Microsoft Research’s ICT for development program i... »

All Your Data Can And Will Be Used Against You »

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31 August 2015 | Netopia

Book Review: The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information by Frank Pasquale Did someone nudge you in to this website from your previous searches? Who is going to ... »

Intro to Cyberlibertarianism »

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30 October 2014 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Book Review: Permissionless Innovation (2014) by Adam Thierer In the early 2010's the digital pirate and porn wars ended. While there is still pirated content out on the internet, and there is plen... »

No Logo for the Internet »

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10 October 2014 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Book Review: The People’s Platform (2014) by Astra Taylor The debate on the internet and web policy is starting to shift. A decade ago it was framed as a black-and-white issue with radical activist... »

Who Watches the Watchmen? »

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23 September 2014 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

Book Review: No Place To Hide (2014) by Glenn Greenwald, Metropolitan Books Glenn Greenwald, columnist at the Guardian, and US documentary film maker Laura Poitras, were the two journalists chose... »

A New Deal for Online Privacy »

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16 May 2014 | Ralf Groetker, Journalist

Book Review: Dragnet Nation (2014) by Julia Angwin Not many years ago, investigative journalists started to approach the topic of data surveillance and privacy intrusion with some sorts of self-e... »

The Global War for Internet Governance »

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8 April 2014 | Ralf Groetker, Journalist

Book Review: The Global War for Internet Governance (2014) by Laura DeNardis First Twitter, then YouTube: the Turkish government has blocked internet service providers for reasons of “national secu... »

“Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny” »

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31 March 2014 | Paul Frigyes, Journalist

Book Review: The Second Machine Age, Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (2014) by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee “The Second Machine Age” has been labelled as... »

Appetite for Acceleration »

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25 February 2014 | Ralf Grötker, journalist

Book Review: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (2013) by Douglas Rushkoff Everything is getting faster. The incoming call on our mobile device (while we are already talking on the landline... »