We speak to Smári McCarthy of the International Modern Media Institute

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1:30 May Day updates

Good day in Mexico City

Good article about the new and old left coming together in the US

Interesting times across Europe

Elections in the UK (local), France and Greece

6:00 Tech update

Apple finally credits Open Street Maps

Duckduckgo searches Open Street Maps if you search !osm

8:00 Interview with Smári McCarthy

International Modern Media Institute builds media freedom best practice

Makes Iceland the best country in the world to host information

Time to go on the offensive to assert net freedom

In the US, free speech is easy to suppress at local level

Free speech laws are 200 years out of date and not fit for the information age

Never waste a good crisis – it’s an opportunity for change

Birgitta Jonsdottir helped promote media freedom in the Alþingi

The financial crisis means Iceland can no longer rely on is finance sector

Data services become a new economic sector, which is diversified and encourages entrepeneurship

ACTA is a threat to a large portion of human endeavour and must be stopped

Lobbyists have succeeded in entrenching intellectual monopoly protections into the Kenyan constitution – allows them to leverage East Africa

How do unions fit into this? Where is the digital labour movement?

the labour movement is paralysed by hierarchy – the internet challenges this and can unlock union power

The industrial revolution was a tragic mistake

How do you protect whistleblowers?

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