Wiki-wideopen? Wiki-don’t let them shut you up.

At the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards, honouring those whom, often at great personal risk, give voice to issues and stories from around the world that would otherwise have passed unnoticed, the Economist New Media Award was won by Wikileaks.

Founded by  an international group consisting of   journalists, mathematicians,IT experts and Chinese dissidents, Wikileaks aim is to develop ‘an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis’.

The whistleblowers’ site has published operations manuals for guards at Guantanamo Bay and it successfully fought off a legal action against Swiss bank Julius Beer & Company after Wikileaks hosted documents suggesting the company helped customers launder money.

The whistleblowers’ charity, Public Concern at Work, lobbies and supports whistleblowers in the UK – but, unlike its American counterparts, it is desperately underfunded.  The word on Wikileaks needs to spread.