Wikileaks and the age of transparency

"Technology and politics analyst Micah Sifry tells the story of WikiLeaks in the context of the growing movement for transparency in politics and of the crowdsourcing activism that the Internet and in particular Web 2.0 has made possible."
""Looks at the rise in prominence of Wikileaks, and the broader ongoing trend away from closed systems and toward transparency and openness in government and corporations"-- National Library of Canada."
"The United States government is diligent -- some might say to the point of obsession -- in defending its borders against invaders. Now we are told that a small, international band of renegades, armed with nothing more than laptops, presents the greatest threat to the US regime since the close of the Cold War. WikiLeaks' release of a massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians across the spectrum -- even free-speech advocates. Welcome to the uncomfortable Age of Transparency. Political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks is not the whole story: it is a symptom."
"Looks at the rise in prominence of Wikileaks, and the broader ongoing trend away from closed systems and toward transparency and openness in government and corporations."@en
"Looks at the rise in prominence of Wikileaks, and the broader ongoing trend away from closed systems and toward transparency and openness in government and corporations."