Ein Nachtrag noch zur Reihe der rund um die re:publica erschienen Druckwerke zum netzpolitischen Themen: Ulrich Herb von der Wissenschaftsberatung scinoptica hat einen Sammelband mit dem Titel “Open Initiatives: Offenheit in der digitalen Welt und Wissenschaft” herausgegeben, der versucht die wachsende Vielfalt an Open-Bewegungen zu erschließen

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Eritrea the most heavily censored country on earth: Committee to Protect Journalist report http://t.co/umCfH01Z #openness #censorship
– Tony Roberts (phat_controller) http://twitter.com/phat_controller/status/198293112215445505

engineers & designers control their own patents, & patents are only used for defensive purposes

"By blocking the text of an article from being shared Facebook is declaring that it is not permissible speak to discuss that this website exists, debate its legality, or the legitimacy of this case with in the space Facebook has define. Granted, it is still possible to copy and paste the link to the article but type of filtering can be prone to error and deserves scrutiny."

"I certainly do not think this issue is on a par with government based censorship. Moreover, I have much admiration for two of the companies we discussed -- Apple and Facebook. I have always admired Apple’s products. In fact, I am writing this post on an Imac and using an Apple keyboard I have cherished for the past seven years. Likewise, Facebook has helped to connect hundreds of millions of people, has been a key tool for political expression and has been instrumental to the Arab Spring. Both have made key contributions to the free flow of information around the world. So what was my concern and what about Google for that matter? I became an entrepreneur during the 90’s, the boom time of what you might now call Web 1.0. Yahoo created a directory of all the sites they could find without asking anyone for permission. Ebay quickly became the largest auction company in the world without having to pay a portion of revenue to any ISP. Paypal became the most successful payment company and Amazon soared in e-commerce also without such tolls or any particular company’s permission. Today, starting such a service would entail navigating a number of new tollbooths and gatekeepers. If you are interested in this issue I recommend you read http://futureoftheinternet.org/ by +Jonathan Zittrain. While openness is a core value at Google, there are a number of areas where we can improve too (as the book outlines). But regardless of how you feel about digital ecosystems or about Google, please do not take the free and open internet for granted from government intervention. To the extent that free flow of information threatens the powerful, those in power will seek to suppress it."

The openness of the Internet is threatened. Unfortunately not only by nations and regimes that we expect to go against freedom, but also by democracies. This article is a good reminder that we can't take the net for granted.

design principles and examples of how we’ve used them so far.

These build on, and add to, our original 7 digital principles.
1 Start with needs*
2 Do less
3 Design with data
4 Do the hard work to make it simple
5 Iterate. Then iterate again.
6 Build for inclusion
7 Understand context
8 Build digital services, not websites
9 Be consistent, not uniform
10 Make things open: it makes things better

@FastCompany: RT @ajscholz: #Innovation in a time of flux: #connectivity, #openness and adaptability matter: http://t.co/YVA5xqJQ #IU12