Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Is Internet access a human right?
June 7th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Presenting a report to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations General Assembly, Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue concludes: “While blocking and filtering measures deny users access to specific content on the Internet, States have also taken measures to cut off access to the Internet entirely. The Special Rapporteur considers cutting off users from […]
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The difficult debate on Internet regulation
May 27th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
“The internet cannot exist in some undiscussable and untouchable dimension of human activity. It is a human creation. It affects human lives in all sorts of increasing ways. Morality and the rule of law should apply on the internet as elsewhere in human conduct. As such, it is an absolutely proper subject for governments to […]
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How to learn more about using the Net
May 10th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
I am a member of the Nominet Policy Stakeholder Committee and recently learned that Nominet – which manages the .uk domain name system – has a special web site to educate Net users. You can check it out here.
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A new record: over 7,000 visits in one day
April 13th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Three months ago, I did a posting explaining that, whereas previously, the number of visits to my web site only exceeded 6,000 a day on odd days, that week it had exceeded 6,000 every working day. Yesterday a new record was achieved: the site had more than 7,000 visits. Thank you so much for visiting […]
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How to manage your online persona
March 21st, 2011 by Roger Darlington
There’s more about you on the Net than you realise. So should you be worried? This is the subject of my latest column on Internet issues. You can check out the article here.
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Can a nation be cut off from the Net?
February 19th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
If we had any doubt about this, the answer has come from a little-known feature of the recent revolution in Egypt. As explained in this article in the “New York Times”, it seems that, in the space of merely an hour or so, Egypt was effectively cut off from the global Internet and that this […]
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Why Wales is moving to England
February 19th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It’s totally free to use; yet it has 3.6 million articles in English alone and has material in a total of 278 languages; every month, there are 11.6 million edits and over 400 million visits; it is funded largely by donations and has just raised $16 million in 59 days; it’s probably worth in the […]
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Activism + the Net = revolution
February 2nd, 2011 by Roger Darlington
It seems that increasingly political change – especially revolutionary change in authoritarian regimes – is helped by online tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Look at Tunisia and now Egypt. This is something which I’ve explored in my latest – the 65th – of my regular series of columns on Internet issues. It’s called “The […]
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Internet Champions at BT Tower
January 24th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
Today I attended an award ceremony staged by Age UK with the support of BT. The awards were to four Internet Champions and they were presented by Communications Minister Ed Vaizey. The Government’s Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox spoke as well. You can read the inspiring stories of the winners here. The event was held […]
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10th anniversary of Wikipedia
January 15th, 2011 by Roger Darlington
For eight years now, I’ve been contributing a regular column on Internet issues to the magazine of the trade union Connect (now part of Prospect). Boy, have things changed online in that time. You can check out all my 64 columns here. In October 2007, I wrote a column with the title “Is Wikipedia The […]
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