Quote of the day

For years or decades to come, we will not be able to talk of one destiny for all the people of the country

Syndicate content

Login

Login or Register to be identified in your comments

Email & RSS

Sign up to oD's editorial summaries email:



Add oD to your Netvibes: Add to Netvibes

openDemocracy likes

Dougald Hine

Dougald Hine is co-founder of schoolofeverything.com, an internet startup providing new ways to organise learning, where he is in charge of research and partnership development. He also writes a blog called Changing the World (and other excuses for not getting a proper job

Recent articles


Nonline community: freedom, education, the net

Both governments and zealous cyber-enthusiasts champion the internet's educational and political potential. The danger that results is a policy of techno-compulsion that undermines citizens' autonomy. There is a better way, says Dougald Hine.

Climate change: a question of democracy

Global warming requires more than finding the right levers of policy change: it is a challenge to democratic imagination, says Dougald Hine.

China's days of protest

Beneath China’s booming economy lies immense social inequality and seething worker discontent. A western observer witnesses a minor but now unexceptional popular convulsion.