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Micah Sifry is editor and curator of the Personal Democracy Forum (PdF), based in New York. He is watching the OWS movement carefully – since it really hits the core of what he is doing at PdF. PdF’s assumption is that technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. […]

… among many other movements”, says Ellen Miller, Co-founder and director of Sunlight Foundation, Washington DC. The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. Sunlight […]

Mayor Bloomberg should show some support for the demonstrators instead of him and and the bankers belittling and harassing them and having the taxpayer pay for the over-representation and overtime of the police forces.

              The commodification of Africa’s universities and the policies of mass recruitment of new students are alarming given the limited number of institutions to accommodate the mass influx of learners from secondary schools to tertiary institutions and onto the labour market. With the whole […]