When the rich and powerful of the world unite in Davos like they do every year, it might be the right time to raise attention for a long-awaited WikiLeaks contender called OpenLeaks. As Reuters reports, there will be a press conference on Friday, January 28, when Daniel Domscheit-Berg, one of the founders, will present his project.

Until last September, Daniel was involved with WikiLeaks as spokesperson, but he left WikiLeaks in disagreement with Julian Assange, the famous founder and face of WikiLeaks. According to the not-yet launched OpenLeaks website, the project tries to avoid some of the shortcomings of the WikiLeaks approach:

OpenLeaks will not accept or publish documents on its own platform, but rather create many “digital dropboxes” for its community members, each adapted to the specific needs of our members such that they can provide a safe and trusted leaking option for whistleblowers.
We are concentrating on making the process of submitting leaks safe and easy, thus we do not focus on review or publishing (the other parts of the leaking process). That will be done by members of our community: NGOs, media, independent organizations, and more. These participants will be diverse in nature and in regionality, coming from all over the globe in later phases.
The split between submission and publication of leaked documents makes the whole process safer for all who participate in it, and at the same time makes scaling so much easier.

For a detailed introduction to OpenLeaks watch this video from 27C3:

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