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Stewart helped to start the world-wide focus on knowledge management in 1991 with a seminal article in Fortune magazine titled "Brainpower: How Intellectual Capital is Becoming America's Most Important Asset". A few years later, he helped to expand his theories with his influential book "Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations". This showed that knowledge is one of the most important assets developed in the modern economy. In "The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organization", Stewart built upon his ideas, giving practical strategies to companies who could use KM to achieve competitive advantage.

ARTICLE 19 is a human rights organisation with a specific mandate and focus on the defence and promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of information worldwide. We believe that all people have the right to freedom of expression and access to information, and that the full enjoyment of this right is the most potent force to achieve individual freedoms, strengthen democracy, and pre-empt repression, conflict, war and genocide.

Planetary phenomena, such as global climate change and transborder disease transmission, are increasing subject to monitoring aided by advances in surveillance and data processing technologies. The most powerful governments of the world, especially the United States, are building monitoring systems they can control. Communities and activists around the world face a fundamental choice: become involved in shaping those systems so they better serve the needs and interests of the world’s population or build their own independent, unofficial monitoring systems.

The project of 'free culture' is committed to the creation of a cultural space, rather like the 'public domain', seeking to complement/replace that of proprietary cultural commodities and privatized meaning. This has been given a new impetus with the birth of the Creative Commons. This organization has sought to introduce cultural producers across the world to the possibilities of sharing, co-operation and commons-based peer-production by creating a set of interwoven licenses for creators to append to their artwork, music and text. In this paper, we chart the connections between this movement and the early Free Software and Open Source movements and question whether underlying assumptions that are ignored or de-politicized are a threat to the very free culture that the project purports to save. We then move to suggest a new discursive project linked to notions of radical democracy.

High-tech digital-surveillance system from IBM Research has far-reaching possibilities.

Experts say the new U.S. National Space Policy will push the world closer to a space arms race.

Political scientist Thad Hall says federal standards are required to prevent state electronic registration databases from disenfranchising people.

The United States government either currently has, or soon will have, new technology that makes mass surveillance possible. The next question for citizens and other policy makers is whether and when to use this capability.