openDemocracy.net

openDemocracy.net is an online global magazine of politics and culture.

Their mission is to publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds.

The aims of the Foundation are to encourage the advancement of education and particularly the understanding of democracy, global processes and participation by protecting the name, independence and spirit of openDemocracy Limited and openDemocracy.net and ensuring that openDemocracy.net is not published for the profit of any individuals.

They use the web's potential to build and map intelligent discussions, they have more than 1,500 articles.

Articles are written by and for people across the world, from South and North, from the powerless to the influential, we seek to bring together those who are not well-known with writers and thinkers of international repute.

Their name they say is dedicated to opening up a democratic space - free thinking for the world.

openDemocracy.net is published by openDemocracy Limited, a company limited by guarantee and wholly owned by the openDemocracy Foundation for the Advancement of Global Education.

The partnership between the Foundation, which appoints the Editor, and the Board of openDemocracy Limited, which oversees the operation, creates what in the United States is termed a 'not-for-profit' social venture.

The Foundation is not a registered charity but its objects and purposes are for the advancement of education and it qualifies for charitable donations under the laws of the U.K.

The Foundation, openDemocracy Limited and openDemocracy.net seek public benefit not party political purpose. They do not support, or oppose, any political party or candidate for public office; they do not lobby or otherwise attempt to influence any legislation.

At the heart of openDemocracy is independence from vested interests, including those of the foundations and trusts which currently help to fund it. As a 'not-for-profit' it retains and reinvests all its profits to build and improve the venture but it still needs to make money to become financially self-supporting. The more it does so the more its independence will be secured.

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