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Nalaka Gunawardene
Thanks for this. For sometime now, I have been wondering if Public Interest Geeks (which unfortunately abbreviates as PIGs – sorry!) would help unleash the true social potential of ICTs. After watching the impact of WikiLeaks, I’m more hopeful, but as you say, this is only a transitory phase. There will soon be a million Assanges. That’s a million (good) PIGs who can give nightmares to all those in authority who seek to control the flow of information.