Becky Hogge

Becky Hogge (born 1979 in London) is a UK-based music and technology writer and the first full-time executive director[1] of the Open Rights Group, resigning in 2008.

[2] During her time with openDemocracy she helped establish the China environment website chinadialogue.net, along with editor Isabel Hilton.

She is a former board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

As a writer and commentator, she covers the global politics of technology, open source, and intellectual property rights.

She writes a weekly technology column for the New Statesman[4] and openDemocracy[2] and has also written for The Guardian,[5] and Prospect,[6] In 2011 she published a book about the hacker culture entitled Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia.

Becky Hogge talks about digital rights and the Open Rights Group