Alejandro@Oxford

I am a fervent supporter of the European Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. She forced the big mobile phone companies to lower their outrageous roaming tariffs in the European Union. Now, a new proposal intends to reform the EU’s telecommunication rules, including “measures to boost competition in Europe’s broadband markets in order to [...]

Apparently the Italian government wants the parliament to pass a law to limit and control blogs in Italy. The Levi-Prodi law lays out that anyone with a blog or a website has to register it with the ROC, a register of the Communications Authority, produce certificates, pay a tax, even if they are non-lucrative. Read [...]

The New York Times reports that several major libraries in the US have rejected offers from Microsoft and Google to digitilise their books because ” they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.” They are instead signing with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), a non-profit project to  [...]

Today it is Blog Action Day for the environment. Following the appeal by blogactionday.org, I am doing my part by posting on environment and technology. Since the beginning of times, humanity has approached technology as a blessing and a danger. The protection of environment is probably one of those areas in which technology can do [...]

So, where is Burma now? It seems that the explosion of support for the Bimanian “revolution” is fading as quick as it emerged. The media and the Internet have relegated this story to a secondary place, however the effect could last more than it seems. For example, this same posts is the consequence of those [...]

This is the first post of my new OII blog. I have a personal blog called Blog of Change : “A blog about change…technological, social and political change…and a pinch of a view into the future…” I encourage you to visit and participate! I hope to post a more interesting entry very soon.

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In the NYT there is an article “Free the Avatars“, reporting that IBM and Linden Lab (creator Second Life) are announcing at the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo at San Jose, California that they will
“develop open standards that will allow avatars to roam from one virtual community to the next. The goal is let a [...]