Wikileaks and the new authority
Tue, 12/07/2010 - 12:22 — Tom KanekoIt's a big week for the internet and the old powers. I am fascinated by the Wikileaks story, not so much for the revelations themselves, but the reactions of some governments and columnists. Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks have been likened to a terrorist by Sarah Palin, calls for his killing by William Kristol, former chief of staff to the US vice president, and further calls for death by conservative columnist Jeffrey T Kuhner in the Washington Times. Some of these threats are listed in the Open Letter to the Australian Prime Minister regarding Julian Assange.
Whole of Government Accounts
Tue, 09/30/2008 - 00:00 — Tom Kaneko
What seems to have attracted very little attention these days is the plan by the UK government to open up its accounts to the public. The project is named Whole of Government Accounts (WGA) and the first year of accounts will be published for the year 2009-10. It is a welcome move for those who yearn for a more open government, and those that accuse the bureaucracies of massive waste.
With whom is your identity safe?
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 16:29 — Tom Kaneko
This is a slightly unrelated topic to architecture, but it's one of those things that I feel very strongly about, and something that you can help with, just by knowing about it. I am sure that you've heard about the National ID Card scheme and the National Identity Register (NIR), with its claims to: