On this week's Tech Weekly, Aleks Krotoski and Jemima Kiss brighten up the dark winter nights with two people who are trying the make the world a better place.
Joi Ito is the chief executive of Creative Commons, a not-for-profit organisation that is tackling head on the challenges of intellectual property and copyright ownership in a digital age. Joi argues that permissive licences, which allow people to share creative and other materials, are good for innovation. There's more from Joi in this week's Science Weekly podcast and in the Observer's Discover section.
Toby Barnes wants to make the daily commute fun, rather than a slog. His company, Mudlark, is "game-ifying" the London public transport system with Chromaroma, drawing out connections, creating challenges and reaffirming community on the bus, the tube, the train and the cycle. Is it a capital-wide group hug or harbinger of an incentivisation culture?
Even the news gets a makeover, so listen to 30 minutes of sunshine in the depth of midwinter.
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