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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

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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.