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What sort of web do you want? I want one which is not fragmented into lots of pieces, as some countries have been suggesting they should do in reaction to recent surveillance. I want a web which is, for example, a really good basis for democracy. I want a web where I can use healthcare with privacy and where there’s a lot of health data, clinical data is available to scientists to do research. I want a web where the other 60 percent get on board as fast as possible. I want a web which is such a powerful basis for innovation that when something nasty happens, some disaster strikes, that we can respond by building stuff to respond to it very quickly. 2 A Magna Carta for the Web "Timbernerslee" by Paul Clarke - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -

3 A Magna Carta for the Web Generation Open Symposium 20 October 2014 Magna Carta is an English word. It's an old English word. It's 800 years old this year. And I think we would need to learn the lessons of the Magna Carta itself. Why? Who? Then, who had power? And why did people want those liberties proclaimed? And here we are in a digital environment, in this new evolving reality called the Internet. Who runs the Internet? Who rules over the Internet? Who wields power? And I think that in those days, the feudal barons had issues with the King, but today the question will be: Who is the King? - Nnenna Nwakanma, Web Foundation Nigeria, Sept 2014 (Image: Magna Carta (British Library Cotton MS Augustus II.106), Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain)

A bill guaranteeing civil rights on the internet was signed into law by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff at the NetMundial Internet Governance conference today. The bill protects privacy and freedom of expression online and enshrines net neutrality as law. It is locally referred to as the "internet constitution". The signing was meet with cheers and applause from the NetMundial audience. In a speech immediately prior to the signing, inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee called it a "fantastic example of how governments can play a positive role in advancing web rights and keeping the web open" and called for other countries to follow suit. 4 Marco Civil da Internet Kieren McCarthy, 23 Apr internet/

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About 25 years ago, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and gave it to the world. To mark the anniversary of this turning point for humanity, we are creating Web We Want, a major new three-part festival at Southbank Centre designed by you. Web We Want The Web We Want movement is calling on everyone, everywhere to play their part in shaping and enhancing the Web - not just for us, but for future generations too. With our supporters and partners, we respond to threats to the Web with action - driving real change at a national and global level. Web We Want is campaigning for a global ‘Magna Carta for the Web’. We want citizens in every country to be protected by an online Bill of Rights in their nation too. We also support local activists - in the past six months we’ve partnered with over 30 organisations supporting local campaigns, research and projects reaching tens of thousands of people across the globe. From Cameroon to Colombia, examples of Web We Want activities include research to unmask new truths on government surveillance, workshops to protect the privacy of human rights activists and bloggers working online, and training to enhance the rights of women and girls on the Web. The movement was sparked by the World Wide Web Foundation, which was established by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. To find out more and join the campaign, please visit 6 Web We Want

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