I chose Wikileaks.org as my submission for this week. It is a bit different from the other examples of crowd-sourcing in the readings and on the course blog, but absolutely pertinent. It relies on insiders all over the world, risking prison or sometimes their life, to leak documents they believe the global community needs to know about. It terms of human security and a “life worth living,” this sometimes means bringing information to light that cause us to question the decisions of our own leaders and put pressure on others.
How secure is a life in complete naivety? And as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange puts it, “Every organization rests upon a mountain of secrets… it’s time to open the archives.”
-Sam
