[Governance] More Internet while parts if the world shuts down...

[sivasubramanian muthusamy]

With factories, offices, public places, transportation, schools are
colleges shut down, and no clear picture of whether normal life would
resume in 4 weeks or 4 months, it is the Internet that could make life go
on. While it is necessary to keep an eye on fake news and the dangers of
fake news causing panic, it is equally important to keep the Internet open,
perhaps even with directives to access providers NOT to disrupt
connectivity to any user under any pretext together with a heightened
awareness among Governments that everyone needs Internet, even to seek
medical help, and more to preserve mass psychological well being.

"More Internet" here implies an approach that is on the other end of the
tendency to lock down, it implies a greater willingness to keep more of the
people of the world more connected, and to make news, educational,
spiritual and entertainment content more available and also to think of
more of curated streams  for e.g,  you tube recommendation, you tube
curated streams, a better face book news stream etc... On the constructive
/ reconstruction front, Internet could bring together groups to collaborate
on crisis management, economic reconstruction questions and could generate
innovative ideas to solve problems.

This is also a good time for Internet  Radio to take shape in a big way.

Sivasubramanian M
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