[governance] How the web lost its way – and its founding principles

[parminder]

On Monday 25 August 2014 03:41 PM, Adam wrote:
> When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web 24 years ago he thought he'd created an egalitarian tool that would share information for the greater good. But it hasn't quite worked out like that. What went wrong?
>
> more at:
>
> <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/24/internet-lost-its-way-tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web>

Precisely, what went wrong! And for us, the IG civil society, we can 
probably do our own introspection... Even till mid 2000 there was much 
hope from the web and the Internet, which is around the time this civil 
society space begin to become active.. And then in 2010, Wired magazine 
brought out that cover page with 'the web is dead', and still we only 
are going down hill since....

Ok, my hypothesis is, civil society simply let big Internet business off 
the hook, entirely, did not at all focus on it, rather preferred to cosy 
up to it, as the tale with the WEF goes on. Do note that all the above 
articles put the blame for killing the egalitarian Internet/ web 
exclusively on Internet big business .... But despite repeated 
exhortations by some people here, we simply never had a strategy for 
Internet big business. Our exclusive focus has been the UN and 
developing country govs - those bad guys!

parminder

>
> Adam


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