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Next year, the world will reach an important milestone, the 50/50 moment, when more than half of the world’s population will be online.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports May 2019 has been projected as the 50/50 moment when more than half of the world’s population will be online for the first time in the history of the Internet.
Thirty years after Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, it makes a huge difference in people’s lives – whether it is the chance to access a world of information, to improve their education, develop new skills, or build new businesses.
For all the billions of people that are already online, there are billions more who are not benefiting from the economic potential of the World Wide Web, or its wider promise – the ability to exercise fundamental human rights such as access to information and free expression.
As the world marks this milestone, Berners-Lee has launched a campaign to persuade governments, companies and individuals to sign a Contract for the Web set of principles designed to defend a free and open Internet.
Google has announced support for Contract for the Web, stressing that over the coming months, they will work with the World Wide Web Foundation to draw up principles that protect the open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone.
“As we approach the 50/50 moment, we support the World Wide Web Foundation’s call to create a new Contract for the Web.
“Over the coming months, we’ll work with the World Wide Web Foundation and many other partners from government and business, as well as web users around the world, to draw up principles that protect the open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone.
“We’re also backing up that commitment with a one million dollar Google.org grant to the World Wide Web Foundation so that it can continue to drive forward its important work #ForTheWeb,” Jacquelline Fuller, President, Google.org said in a statement.