The creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee unveiled today his action plan to save the web from digital dystopia
for governments, companies and individuals to follow. One of these principles urged government leaders to make sure everyone is connected to the internet and that it’s available all the time, while another called on tech companies to respect consumers’ privacy.
Leaders of civil society groups involved in the initiative are betting Berners-Lee’s plan will help make the Web more inclusive. In a statement supporting the Contract’s launch, Roya Mahboob, a tech entrepreneur and women’s rights activist from Afghanistan, said she hoped it would remove some of the significant barriers girls and women still face in accessing education and setting up businesses online.
That fight will have to tackle an alarmingly wide range of problems. According to statistics from the World Wide Web Foundation, over a third of children ages 12 to 17 in the U.S. have already experienced online bullying; false stories reach significant numbers of people six times faster, on average, than true ones do; and in at least 45 democracies around the world, politicians and political parties have amassed fake followers and manipulated news.
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