Friday, November 15, 2002

UNESCO's Information Society Division director, Philippe Quéau, seems to have a similar perspective to Lawrence Lessig. In The World Split in Two. In Search of Ethics and a political Economy for the Information Society he worries about evolving telecoms monopolies and the commercialisation of knowledge. He's particularly concerned about crucial policy questions being "left to extremely narrow circles of specialists, who prepare legislation likely to impact on the entire world, concerning intellectual property rights for example, without any real democratic debate."

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