Geert Lovink on the disadvantages of Web 2.0

Interviewed by Marie Lechner, Geert Lovink, a Dutch media analyst and Internet critic, warns against certain disadvantages of Web 2.0. "The quantity of personal data that a company like Google collects on us is without precedent. ... Internet is a public digital domain in which our data is stocked. It should be neither the property of States, nor that of companies. This is not as utopian as it may seem. This could have already been achieved by international organisations such as UNESCO. Unfortunately these organisations have become out-dated bureaucracies, as we were able to observe during the 2003 and 2005 World Summit of the Information Society [SMSI]. What we need is a strong and open European alternative to Google, a framework for decentralised knowledge, like Wikipedia, that works for the benefit of the public."

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