21st Century Learning and Teaching

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who pioneered the interconnected information management system we now know colloquially as the Web (he called it the World Wide Web),..

Speaking to the Guardian today, Berners-Lee argued for the need for “a global constitution – a bill of rights” to protect online freedoms — and indeed, freedoms in general.

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“Unless we have an open, neutral internet we can rely on without worrying about what’s happening at the back door, we can’t have open government, good democracy, good healthcare, connected communities and diversity of culture. It’s not naive to think we can have that, but it is naive to think we can just sit back and get it,” he told the newspaper.

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Core issues that an online bill of rights should seek to defend are principles of privacy, free speech and responsible anonymity, according to Berners-Lee.

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“Our rights are being infringed more and more on every side, and the danger is that we get used to it. So I want to use the 25th anniversary for us all to do that, to take the web back into our own hands and define the web we want for the next 25 years,” he added.