Becky Hogge (born 1979 in London) is a UK-based music and technology writer and the first full-time executive director of the

Open Rights Group The Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including ma ...

, resigning in 2008. She was previously the managing editor, and then the technology director and technology

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for

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. During her time with openDemocracy she helped establish the

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

environment website

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, along with editor

Isabel Hilton Isabel Nancy Hilton OBE (born 25 November 1949) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster based in London. Early life Hilton was educated at Edinburgh University, where she studied Chinese to post-graduate level. As Secretary of the entirel ...

. She is a former board member of the

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. and a member of its advisory board. As a writer and commentator, she covers the

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of technology,

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, and intellectual property rights. She writes a weekly technology column for the ''

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'' and openDemocracy and has also written for ''

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'', and '' Prospect'', In 2011 she published a book about the

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entitled ''Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia''.

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Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia
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