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Typewriter Man: Ralph Nader on the Failure of High-tech Consumer protests

Kirk Victor | Nextgov | June 8, 2012

Nader views the breakthroughs in telecommunications often as distractions rather than tools of empowerment. It’s no easier to mobilize consumers today, he says, than in his low-tech heyday.

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9 Models To Scale Open Data – Past, Present And Future

Francis Irving | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog | July 18, 2013

The possibilities of open data have been enthralling us for 10 years. But that excitement isn’t what matters in the end. What matters is scale – which organisational structures will make this movement explode? Read More »

Five Things Successful Companies Know About Open Source

Guy Martin | Open Source Delivers | June 26, 2013

It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention, and also that brevity is the soul of wit. In preparing for a recent trip to Samsung Electronics corporate headquarters in South Korea, I had a chance to test both of these theories. Read More »

Government Attacked Over Deals With Fast-Food Industry: ‘Pure Illusion’ To Think This Approach Can Cut Obesity

Charlie Cooper | The Independent | February 3, 2014

Scathing World Health Organisation report warns UK cannot tackle epidemic unless Government changes policy Read More »

How The US Government Uses Information From Spying On Foreign Companies

Josh Meyer | Nextgov | July 18, 2013

There’s no longer doubt that the US government spies on foreign multinational corporations as well as governments, thanks to the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor turned international fugitive Edward Snowden. [...] Read More »

Inner-Sourcing: Adopting Open Source Development Processes In Corporate IT

Tim Yeaton | OpenSourceDelivers | August 29, 2012

Today, we are hearing from customers more and more frequently that they want to gain the benefits of open source community-style collaborative development inside their corporate development organizations – what Tim O’Reilly has called “inner-sourcing.” Read More »

Latin American Countries Ally to Defend Themselves From Transnational Corporations

Martin Khor | bilaterals.org | June 24, 2013

Threatened by billion dollar lawsuits arising from investment treaties, several governments have formed a new grouping to deal with transnational companies. Read More »

Public Research For Private Gain

Darwin BondGraham | East Bay Express | June 26, 2013

UC Regents recently approved a new corporate entity that will likely give a group of well-connected businesspeople control over how academic research is used. Read More »

Sugar: Killing Us Sweetly. Staggering Health Consequences Of Sugar On Health of Americans

Gary Null | Global Research | February 3, 2014

In September 2013, a bombshell report from Credit Suisse’s Research Institute brought into sharp focus the staggering health consequences of sugar on the health of Americans. The group revealed that approximately “30%–40% of healthcare expenditures in the USA go to help address issues that are closely tied to the excess consumption of sugar.” [...] Read More »

The OSEHRA Value Proposition

Keith McCall | Open Source Electronic Health Record Agent (OSEHRA) | July 18, 2013

This post is a follow-up to a presentation made at the OSEHRA lock-down and provides various updates in an attempt to engage dialogue supporting or rebutting various value elements of OSEHRA and the challenges OSEHRA has in becoming a successful organization. Read More »

We Deserve More Than This Bad Farm Bill

Ben Lilliston | Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) | February 5, 2014

Was it just exhaustion from two-plus years of negotiations that finally produced the Farm Bill that is expected to be signed by the President this week? [...] For whatever reason, there is a sense that a deeply flawed Farm Bill—the terms of which were dictated largely by austerity fanatics from the start—is the best we’ll get under the current political environment. Read More »

What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | August 16, 2013

A scholar argues that the core issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money. Read More »

Who Broke America’s Jobs Machine?

Barry C. Lynn and Phillip Longman | Washington Monthly | March 4, 2010

If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs. Read More »

Who Writes Linux? Corporations, More Than Ever

Serdar Yegulalp | InfoWorld | February 3, 2014

Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Read More »