It seems such an obvious truth now: the Internet can be catalyst for political and social change. But until the Arab Spring of 2011 few people fully realised or believed quite how powerful it could be. Now the US government, accustomed to celebrating the democratising power of the Internet, is getting a taste of
The editors of the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia on Tuesday made an unprecedented decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia in protest over contentious antipiracy bills being considered by the US government. In a letter to the Wikipedia community, Sue Gardner, executive director at the Wikimedia
SA is to get a Wikipedia chapter. Among other things, the chapter, the first in Africa, will encourage translation of the free online encyclopaedia into local languages. A group of local volunteers has begun working on making Wikipedia
