Opt-out of Solutionism: Peeping inside the mind of Evgeny Morozov »

11 December 2013 | Jane Whyatt, journalist

Just as the Twitterpics appeared of the statue of Lenin being dragged to the ground in Kiev, Evgeny Morozov was telling his London fans “Training dissidents to use social media and apps just allows re... »

Making Money: Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies (Pt. 2) »

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5 December 2013 | Ralf Grötker

Most press coverage on Bitcoin almost exclusively focusses on either online fraud (most recently: the malware Cryptolocker which forces its victims to pay a ransom in Bitcoin in order to get access to... »

Safe Space for Kids Online, Make Like a Penguin »

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3 December 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Editor Netopia

Club Penguin is a virtual world for children and was designed to be a safe online space for children and now has more than 200 million members. Netopia had a chat with Club Penguin’s European director... »

Making money: Bitcoin and virtual currencies (Pt. 1) »

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29 November 2013 | Ralf Grötker

Just imagine that the guys running Wikipedia, Mozilla or Wordpress would start producing money. Indeed, this is what is happening since 2009. Just as the encyclopaedia Wikipedia relies on an open netw... »

Madelin: EU Parliament stopped better online law »

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20 November 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Editor Netopia

BRUSSELS The European Forum on Child Protection featured an impressive list of speakers in its full-day seminar in Brussels this past Tuesday. Robert Madelin and John Carr are familiar to Netopia’... »

Column: Personal 3D Printing – A Paradigm Shift for Objects »

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14 November 2013 | Mathilde Berchon, author

In the space of a few years, 3D printing has passed from the status of a tool for rapid industrial prototyping to become a superstar in the hopes of the “New Industrial Revolution.” For the first t... »

Column: The Philosophy of 3D Printing »

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8 November 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl, CEO, think tank Eudoxa

Part of Netopia's upcoming report 3D Printing and Intellectual Property, to be released on 13 November 2013. The Promise of Abundance The promise of the internet revolution was to provide everyo... »

Column: The Digital Ambulance Chasers »

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31 October 2013 | Rhoda Crocket, hacking and spamming expert

Markets typically follow a well-understood path of chaos, organisation, regulation and reregulation. The internet is no different and has gone from early days of loose leaf HTML cobbled together webpa... »

”Europe Must Break Up US Cloud Dominance” »

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29 October 2013 | Per Strömbäck, Netopia

Privacy online, crowd-funding and genetic engineering were the main topics at the fourth annual TedX Brussels which gathered 1500 delegates at the Bozar art centre. Netopia was there. BRUSSELS Tech... »

Column: Online Marketplace Delayed »

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25 October 2013 | Ralf Groetker, Journalist

Let’s monetize the internet! This is what critic Jaron Lanier, formally known as virtual reality-evangelist, suggests in his latest book Who owns the future?. The problem, Lanier thinks, is that more ... »