TY - JOUR AB - A global economy needs global public goods – water, health, clean environments, peace, education and, critically, access to information. Instead the commercialization and corporate exploitation of the Internet and other media are eroding our choices, civil liberties and access to vital information. Civic society organizations are being marginalized but there is a way to fight back. Sharing, bartering and cooperating are much better ways for exploiting Metcalfe’s Law and Reed’s Law than going head‐to‐head in competition with money‐based corporate players. VL - 5 IS - 4 SN - 1463-6689 DO - 10.1108/14636680310494762 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/14636680310494762 AU - Henderson Hazel PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - Democratizing the information society T2 - Foresight PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 50 EP - 55 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -