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We carry out research and promote debate around the most pressing issue of our time: how to live together well in an interdependent world.

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Cloud Culture, the new Counterpoint publication, All rights reserved

Cloud Culture is now available to download: launch and debate at the ICA tonight

Counterpoint is launching a vital debate for our time. The rise of cloud computing is not only creating the battle for global internet control: it will soon change the very ways in which we exercise our creativity and forge relationships. In our ground-breaking report, Charles Leadbeater asks what will Cloud Culture be like? Who will own the cloud? How can we keep it open? And how can it empower the world’s poorest people? more...

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Creative commons, internet freedom and emerging technologies, an interview with Bill Thompson

Technology writer and journalist Bill Thompson took some time out from his busy schedule to talk to Nick Wadham-Smith and Ari Magnusson of Counterpoint. We discussed the current state and future prospects for Creative Commons licences, Rupert Murdoch's proposed charging for online news content, emerging models for media organisations to distribute content and new technologies that may shape our society in the next 5 to 10 years. more...

Counterpoint Podcast Series

Counterpoint Podcast Series

The Counterpoint podcast series brings leading thinkers and practitioners from a wide array of fields to discuss some of the most important issues in cultural relations today. An archive of all our podcasts and interviews can be found here. more...

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