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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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James Cowling

Jamie Cowling is a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and was a UK civil society delegate at the World Summit on the Information Society.

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