I was particularly interested in the section concerning the keynote address given by Vishakha Desai from the Asia Society in New York. Her observations concerning the relevance of understanding the dynamics of the modern, multicultural and multi-polar world provided much food for thought. Desai’s notion that information institutions must prepare for the decentralization of power has interesting anarchist connotations (I’m talking more Kropotkin than vigilante-style computer hackers), which should probably be more pronounced than they are considering libraries, museums and archives are more or less run on the classical anarchist principles of mutual aid and co-operation.

Her phrase ‘glocal’ – a combination global and local – sounds like a good starting point for a few hundred PHDs. I of course have not written one here, and probably not write one in the near future, but am certainly glad of the report’s availability and I thank Tame the Web for providing it.