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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

iCan canned

Well, the name at least.

The BBC's attempt at helping encourage and boost public campaigns at grassroots level, iCan, is changing its monicker.

Comment: Apart from helping the BBC keep an eye on groundswells of opinion so that it never missed the fuel protests again, I never quite got the point of iCan. Or, more accurately, it seemed like a very under-funded and sidelined attempt at encouraging activism. The name change would suggest they're not too happy with its performance either.

Still, helping people to campaign for what they believe is a laudable objective.

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