Open Tech 2008 is an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at.
We don’t usually flag events on this blog, instead we use Upcoming to publish events. Open Tech is exceptional because Open Rights Group was conceived [...]

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Will consumer pressure for a safer net mean the end of open platforms and rapid innovation? And should the geeks who “get” the net care if the rest of the world prefer TiVos and iPhones?
On Wednesday of this week we co-hosted an event at the British Computer Society to discuss the problems raised by Jonathan [...]

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Update: David Bausola of Imagination (www.imagination.com) and Rob Myers - the conceptual engineers behind the commercial media production model that uses Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike as in Ford of Europe’s Where are the Joneses? - will both be joining Tom and John (see below) for our panel Q&A at the Monday seminar
Over the last few [...]

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Creative Commons (CC) celebrates its fifth birthday this weekend with a series of local celebrations across the globe, including Beijing, Berlin, San Francisco and Seoul. If you’re part of the worldwide CC Community, follow this link for details of all the different parties. And if you’re not yet aware of CC’s excellent and thoroughly open [...]

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BBC Backstage is once again kindly sharing its gert big Christmas bash with Open Rights Group. And this one’s shaping up to even bigger and better than last year. For those who didn’t make it, here’s some picture of 2006’s full-to-bursting party.
So this time around, on Saturday 15 December, we’re taking over a 4-floor pub [...]

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Our e-Voting campaign tour reached its triumphant climax this week in Blackpool. Jonathan Djanogly MP, the Shadow Solicitor General who was hugely complimentary about our work, joined Jason and the Electoral Commission on our panel to discuss the ills of electronic elections.
As in Brighton with the Lib Dems and in Bournemouth with Labour, the [...]

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If you live local to Blackpool, please come along for a drink and meet the ORG team this Monday evening. We’ll be in town for our fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference - part of the “Should we trust electronic elections” roadshow - and are really keen to meet ORG supporters in the area [...]

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If you live local to Bournemouth, please come along for a drink and meet the ORG staff this Thursday night. We’re in town for our fringe event at the Labour Party Conference - part of the “Should we trust electronic elections” roadshow - and are really keen to meet ORG supporters in the area and [...]

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If you’re in or around Brighton this weekend, be sure to come and have a drink with ORG. We’re really keen to meet ORG supporters in the area and find out about local digital rights concerns. It’s not often we get to leave the big smoke on official ORG business (we’re roadshowing our e-voting campaign [...]

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Since our 3 May mission to observe e-voting and e-counting in the English and Scottish elections, the ORG e-voting team have been hard at work. The individual reports from our 25-strong volunteer team, as well as materials collected by Michael and Jason using Freedom of Information requests, have been turned into a sixty-page report which [...]

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