Wikileaks and the age of transparency pdf

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Xanthe Kleinig. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. It is a covert operation, waged largely under the radar of the mainstream media, but the endgame is nothing less than revolution.

Sifry co-founded the Personal Democracy Forum in ; originally an annual conference, it is now a year-round network for the transparency movement. He is also a founder of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organisation devoted to open government policy and the development of technological tools for accountability. It is a body of work that allows Sifry to claim Julian Assange as a contemporary. Assange and WikiLeaks were front-page news last year when the organisation began the systematic release of diplomatic cables amid a storm of press coverage.

Dedicated observers will recall the release of Assange's collateral murder video, a military tape of US helicopters firing on Iraqi civilians. Since then there's been reams written about Assange, his motives, and what his methods mean for government and the media.

Now we are told a small, international band of renegades armed with nothing more than laptops presents the greatest threat to the U. Congressman Peter King. Hyperbole, hysteria? Welcome to the Age of Transparency. But political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom, an indicator of an ongoing generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed systems, and the new open culture of the Internet. As a result, information is flowing more freely into the public arena, powered by seemingly unstoppable networks of people all over the world cooperating to share vital data and prevent its suppression.

Andrew Rasiej, a futurist, social entrepreneur, and technology advisor to many politicians, is the chair of the famed New York Tech Meetup. New Statesman , October 9th Motherboard , September 26th The Australian , May 14th The American Prospect , May 10th Boing Boing , April 20th Publishers Weekly , April 18th The Guardian , April 11th The Guardian , April 9th Metromix Chicago , March 10th Mother Jones , March 9th GRITtv , March 4th The Chronicle of Philanthropy , March 3rd The Nation , March 3rd Technology Review , February 11th