Global Internet Access: A Human Right

I am a member of the information society.  I am a digital native. I have multiple  facebook, twitter, and gmail accounts.    I am connected to my friends, family, co-workers, the news, television and every single form of media imaginable.  Information is at my fingertips.  I command Wikipedia to answer my questions, dictionary.com and thesaurus.com help me to be articulate, and google fills in the blanks.

These are tools that I use everyday, and I wouldn’t know what to do without them.  But I am lucky, and if you are reading this—so are you.  You are one of the 1.7 billion with internet access.

Since December 2009 myself and a team of others have been working on a little project.  We believe that the internet, with all it’s shortcomings, has changed what it means to be human.  No longer does the disemination of ideas take months, years, or lifetimes– instead the transaction of knowledge is almost instantaneous.  Anyone with the ability to get online has a digital voice that can be heard around the globe.  We are all connected.

And as the internet has enabled this, I believe that we need to assure it’s continued availability, and growth.  Only 26% of the world’s population is online, there exists no failsafe mechanism for when disaster strikes rendering networks inoperable, and the developing world lags far behind.

Myself, and a team from all over the world are working to build a network that will allow most everyone to use the internet, free-from-cost.  A world wide ubiquitous network that will allow most anyone access.

We believe, as do most of you, that internet access is a human right.  We plan to enforce that human right, because– unlike some of the more challenging human rights, this is a something that can be accomplished quickly.  Soon, internet access, will be as easy to come by as the air you breathe.

I would like you to invite you to join us in delivering internet access to the whole of mankind.

Visit us at @ http://ahumanright.org