This is the unedited version of a piece published on The Lowy Institute for International Policy’s Lowy Interpreter blog. I have a great deal of respect for the Lowy Institute. But when one of their staff writes a fundamentally flawed, badly misinformed piece on hacker culture, it really is time to scratch one’s head and […]
Wikileaks: Damage or democratic opportunity?
This is the unedited version of a piece published on The Lowy Institute for International Policy’s Lowy Interpreter blog. “Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens… it is by no means an idle game if we […]
Short thoughts on #cablegate
I wrote a piece about #cablegate last week in the context of open government. Since then I’ve read and thought about it much more, and my view hasn’t changed. Here in Australia, the response from the media and politicians is largely as vacant of substance as it has been elsewhere. Though here in Australia, there’s […]
AGIMO releases Government 2.0 Primer
It’s taken several months from inception to release, and it’s undergone a number of changes and additions since I last saw it, but a project acidlabs contributed to for AGIMO several months ago — The Government 2.0 Primer — has finally been released. And with an appropriately open license of CC-BY, no less! It’s a piece of work that I’m […]