Pirate Bay trial

Aren't we all guilty, too, after all?

The Pirate Bay logo The Pirate Bay, which calls itself "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker", was founded in 2003 by Piratbyrån, a Swedish organization that advocates the free reproduction of files on the Internet. Although the service actually provided by the site (file indexing) isn't considered illegal by the Swedish law, in May 2006 their servers were seized by the police. It happened again last year, which ended up leading to the trial... full story


By GABRIELA ZAGO
from Pelotas, BRAZIL


Web's 20th Anniversary

The imaginary space of information

Tim Berners LeeTwenty years ago Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN, a physics laboratory in Switzerland, when he came upon idea that changed the way of our lives. He thought of joining hypertext to the already existing Internet and getting all information needed in one place. In a word, he created World Wide Web... full story


By LJILJANA SAMARD®IÆ
from Sombor, SERBIA


Uruguay's "One Laptop per Child" policy

Small changes in the Latin America's education reality

XO LaptopIn the world's most democratic developing country according to a research of the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany, 2008), the policy is also seem as a contribution to the political integration between civil society and the state. With 300 thousand computers, Uruguay was the first country to take concrete action in the program and still keeps the title of the largest participation so far in the whole world, a condition largely defended as one of the greatest realizations of the country's government by its current administration... full story


By Jandré BATISTA
from Montevideo, URUGUAY