In Europe, privacy battles focus on how to protect the rights of citizens in a digital era. The network neutrality debates in Brazil and South Korea last year underscored the importance of the continuing effort to uphold principles of the Internet’s founding tenets. In the United States, cyber-security is raising questions about the balance between freedom and security in the 21st century. In India, NGOs pushed the government to reverse its position and oppose intergovernmental control over the Internet. The release of new products such as Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android epitomize the ongoing tension between open and closed technologies. And authoritarian regimes around the globe are struggling to find new ways to surveille and censor, while living in fear of the liberatory potential of new communications technologies.
February 19, 2013
Today we sit at a critical juncture in technology and telecommunications history -- a time when utopian and dystopian trajectories are both possible, and when our thoughts and actions will shape the very future of participatory democracy.
February 19, 2013
