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This is a Wall Street Journal Report by EVGENY MOROZOV At the end of 2010, the “open-source” software movement, whose activists tend to be fringe academics and ponytailed computer geeks, found an unusual ally: the Russian government. Vladimir Putin signed a 20-page executive order requiring all public institutions in Russia to replace proprietary software, developed Read more…

The Internet Society has announced that it is inviting applications for its latest Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF, part of its Next Generation Leaders (NGL) programme (www.InternetSociety.org/Leaders). The Fellowship programme allows engineers from developing countries to attend an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting. IETF is the Internet’s premier standards-making body, responsible for the Read more…

The New York Chapter of the Intrnet Society just held an event to discuss the privacy aspects of cloud computing. The guest speaker was Eben Moglen, general counsel of the Free Software Foundation. He had some novel ideas on how to reclaim privacy whilst engaging in social networking, and challenges the tech community to make Read more…