Since
the time when Sir Tim Berners-Lee first launch the World Wide Web in
1989 he has always made it known that created the Web to be open and
equal for everyone. So, when the World Wide Web foundation's annual
Web index report came out Thursday Mr. Berners-Lee spoke out
about the need to work on making the Internet and Web more accessible
around the world.
“It’s
time to recognize the Internet as a basic human right,” Berners-Lee
said. “That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring
Internet packets are delivered without commercial or political
discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of Web users
regardless of where they live.”
Mr.
Berners-Lee seemed disappointed that in the 25 years since the
introduction of Web his vision of everyone having access is still
unfulfilled. Instead of all the people having access the report shows
that approximately 4.4 billion, of the estimate 7 billion people in
the world, still do not have access to the Internet. Most of those
that do not have access are in poor undeveloped countries. Even in
the United States Internet access is still only 75% meaning that
around 80 million still have not Googled themselves.
While
talking about the Web index Mr. Berners-Lee also took the opportunity
to address some comments
that Russian President Vladimir Putin made earlier this year saying
that the Internet was a CIA project.
"The
Internet is not a CIA creation," Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born
computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989 - the year that the
Berlin Wall collapsed - told Reuters when asked about Putin's CIA
comment. He then added, "It was the academic community who wired
up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning
people who thought it was a good idea.”
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