Becky Hogge

{{Short description|British writer (born 1979)}}

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| caption = Becky Hogge (March 2006)

| birth_date = 1979

| birth_place = London, England

| occupation = Writer on technology, politics and music; previously executive director of the Open Rights Group

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| website = [http://barefootintocyberspace.com Barefoot into Cyberspace]

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Becky Hogge (born 1979 in London) is a UK-based music and technology writer and the first full-time executive director{{Cite web|url=https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/becky-hogge-to-be-new-org-executive-director/|title=Becky Hogge to be new ORG Executive Director|first1=14 Dec 2006 Suw|last1=Charman|first2=erson Organising|last2=ORG|website=Open Rights Group}} of the Open Rights Group, resigning in 2008. She was previously the managing editor, and then the technology director and technology commissioning editor for openDemocracy.net.{{Cite web|url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/becky-hogge|title=openDemocracy: Becky Hogge}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.nmk.co.uk/article/2006/12/4/brief-exposure-becky-hogge |title=New Media Knowledge – Brief exposure |date=4 December 2006 |work=New Media Knowledge |accessdate=13 July 2010}} and a member of its advisory board.

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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{{Cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/becky_hogge|title=New Statesman: Becky Hogge}} and openDemocracy and has also written for The Guardian,{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/becky-hogge |title=Becky Hogge| work=The Guardian |accessdate=13 July 2010 | location=London | date=26 January 2009}} and Prospect,{{cite web|url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2008/11/weallneeddigitalprivacy/ |title=We all need digital privacy |last=Hogge |first=Becky |date=23 November 2008 |work=Prospect |accessdate=13 July 2010}} In 2011 she published a book about the hacker culture entitled Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia.