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19 Nov 2007

Hurrah! It’s global ORG day!

The splendid Open Rights Group has produced a marvellous account of what it has been up to for its first two years. See the post by ORG founder Danny O’Brien

For those who dont know, the story is we all chip in a fiver a month and employ the fabulous Becky Hogge and marvellous Michael Holloway, backed by a quality of sparkling volunteer IT talent you could search the assembled bureaucracies of Europe and never find. The team sets the story straight with media and consultation interventions on digital rights (or in lay terms, how we’re treated on-line). Along with the original director Suw Charman they’ve scored notable successes resisting copyright term extension, working towards a more enlightened approach to intellectual property, and spreading awareness of the so far insoluble problems of e-voting. .

Make the connection. Make that modest sum of your money do something useful. Join ORG. Everyone is welcome, even IdealGov’s loyal silent readers inside the IPS. Especially you, in fact. (You must understand we don’t dislike or disrespect you. We love everyone. We just fear that the task you’ve been asked to do is problematic, and that you’ve been a bit rude and defensive. But - come on - you know that better than we do!)

Here’s where to join and make the necessary arrangements. Make the online world worth living in. And look forward to their fab parties.

**Special extra reason to join now** The noble Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, from which so much good emanates, has agreed to match ORG’s next £10,000 of funding. What can we say, Friends? Your fiver a month becomes £120 a year! This makes you a big-time donor to the UK’s youngest, most vibrant human-rights NGO.

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