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15 October 2002
Filed under:E-democracy at10:59 pm

In E-Government Bulletin last month (only now published on the web) there is a report of an interesting meeting I attended aimed at helping UK civil servants to produce a paper on e-democracy.

It is followed by an editorial by me on how ICT can be used to re-engage people in the political process (my view, in brief, is that technology won’t change anything unless the Government visibly responds to the opportunity it provides).

Filed under:Copyright,problems with technology at12:36 am

From traffic cameras to copyright-infringement spiders we’re using robots to police us and they don’t always work. The ever-unpopular Recording Industry Association of America, rather than edit their bot’s list of files they want ISPs to remove seem to have just sent it across un-culled. As a result, files like “harry potter book report.rtf” (1k in size) are flagged as copyright infringement.equity home mortgages loans 2ndaccess group loana for lender private personal loan5 5 auto loanhome america loan bankyork 100 loan newa loan credit badcredit loan 2 no checkcar used a loanloan add site your car