Sir Tim Berners-Lee: "Contract for the Web" With Backing From Over 80 Organisations

[engine]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web's inventor, has published a Contract for the Web, and it's achieved backing from over 80 organisations, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, and EFF. These organisations represent governments, companies and civil society.

The free and open web faces real challenges. Half the world’s population still can’t get online. For the other half, the web’s benefits come with too many risks: to our privacy, our democracy, our rights.

We need to build a better web.

It sets out commitments to guide digital policy agendas. To achieve the Contract’s goals, governments, companies, civil society and individuals must commit to sustained policy development, advocacy, and implementation of the Contract text.

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[samwest]

Step 1: less gratuitous ad mongering.

[Mark_A]

It seems very worthy and appropriate, how will it be enforced?

[engine]

Mark_A, I think it's more about getting the organisations involved to tow-the-line having gotten them to join the movement.

[samwest]

Google will certainly face challenges with principles 5 and 6.

[Mark_A]

Governments will struggle with 1 also .. even in developed countries ..

[cnvi]

it’s not free or open... If it was free and open I could link exchange with any relevant site instead of fear from getting penalized from G.