Marcelo Thompson

India’s delegation has decided to sustain its negative position on ISO’s ongoing deliberations over OOXML certification — and thus to favour ODF. As much as good neutral Google continues to call governments for network neutrality, good neutral Microsoft continues to call governments for technological neutrality. India was not seduced. In reply, Microsoft said: The Indian [...]

Barack Obama’s speech last Tuesday was the most learned and sensitive political address I have heard in my adult life. In its springing contradictions lies its power; its quasi-musical ability to rearrange a set of utterly dissonant notes in a deep and painful and yet healing and inspiring melody. It was pious. It was humbling [...]

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released the working paper “At a Crossroads: “Personhood” and Digital Identity in the Information Society”, under its Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. The project was brilliantly led by Mary Rundle, Berkman Center, OII, and Stanford CIS Fellow. Co-authors are Bob Blakley, Jeff Broberg, Anthony Nadalin, [...]