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• Search me: What's happening to privacy online? As the internet becomes more integrated into our everyday lives, the issue of privacy becomes ever more important. With the amount of information online increasing through ever expanding uses of technology, what is the right approach to protecting the privacy of users?
  
  In the context of Demos’ ongoing work on privacy and information sharing, this event will explore the implications of these developments for the privacy of the individual. It will ask what the opportunities and challenges are in an era where our online behaviour and relationships are more important than ever. from : petebradwell 29th June 2007
• | Digital ID World | Global warming of the identity ocean | Digital ID World | Global warming of the identity ocean from : petebradwell 6th June 2007
• Oooooh Vienna.... ......That is where my references to 80s classic pop tunes end! Once again, I find myself in an airport departure lounge after a day of international schmoozing. Todays theme was community-based counter-terrorism at a conference organised by the OECD. I delivered one of the key note speeches. Oh er. And yes, todays venue was, er, Vienna. What was reassuring was the extent to which there seemed to be genuine buy-in for the idea that communities need to be central to our responses to... from : rachelbriggs 31st May 2007
• 7/7 Public Enquiry in the Dock Yesterday's guilty verdicts for the five 'fertiliser bombers' and the revelation of partial links between them and two of the 7/7 bombers (Kahn and Tanweer) has renewed calls for a public enquiry into the events leading up to the 7/7 bombing. As a fan of greater openess in the area of security, I am supposed to be supportive of such an enquiry. But I'm not. Not because of the substance of what it might show us, and the important precedent it would set in the openess stakes. But because of the... from : rachelbriggs 1st May 2007
• Cultural Literacy We’re currently developing some work around the idea of cultural literacy. Both Cultural Diplomacy and As You Like It raised the need to focus on a new skill. Mass communication enables us to express and focus on individual interests to a greater degree than ever before and culture has come to the fore as a means by which, and space in which, we relate to each other. But do we have the skills with which we can make the most of this? Historians offer an insight onto what these skills might be. from : samjones 17th April 2007
• ...Or what you will Jamie has just pointed me in the direction of an article in Newsweek that chimes with As You Like It.  It's worth a look because it gives further examples to sit alongside those that we outlined in the pamphlet.For instance, it talks about the degree to which different governments around the world are pushing English learning 'recognizing that along with computers and mass migration, the language is the turbine engine of globalisation'.In another paragraph, the authors point out... from : samjones 27th March 2007
• We're bringing it home... In December, we published Bringing it Home: Community-based approaches to counter-terrorism. Among it's key recommendations were the need for the government to get local in its approach; to talk to a much wider range of individuals and organisations; and to open up safe spaces for dissent, where the real and perceived sources of grievance could be given the air time they need.The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) will publish a new strategy in the coming... from : rachelbriggs 18th March 2007
• 300 and the Real World In Cultural Diplomacy, we talk about the defining characteristics of a new era in which 'the ability of individuals to reap the benefits of globalisation and connect with other people on a truly global level'.
  
  A similar situation is developing around the new film, 300. from : samjones 16th March 2007
• As You Like It Around the world, the way that English is used has come to reflect the changing powers of globalisation; it is spoken in different ways, by different people, for different purposes. The UK has developed an unsustainable complacency to its native tongue. Opportunity and influence remain tied to English, but As You Like It argues that native speakers are at risk of being left behind. from : markfuller 14th March 2007
• Leadership in a multi-ethnic society London Metropolitan University and Demos are hosting a landmark speech by Dr. Bramwell Osula, of the School of Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Regent University in Virginia, USA. from : peterharrington 12th March 2007

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