In case you didn’t hear, OneWebDay is coming up next week on Tuesday, September 22.
The event is modeled after Earth Day and was started three years ago by Susan Crawford, a technology policy advisor to President Obama.
Mozilla is doing their part with their own poster/photo contestand a specific call to action:
- Print and share an ‘I love the web poster’. Create a global wave that shows the web is a precious public resource.
- Conduct an Internet Health Check. Find computers with Internet Explorer 6, and upgrade them to a more secure browser.
- Donate to OneWebDay. Every time you donate, Mozilla will too.
I like the connection to Earth Day and the idea of highlighting the web as a “precious public resource“; it is true that if we don’t nurture and protect it, it could, for all we know, “go away” (whatever that might mean). And yes, in case you were wondering, that would be terrible.
Clearly many of us take the web for granted — and many more of us can barely remember a time before what is rapidly becoming a more people-centric web. Thus, I hope you’ll join me next Tuesday on OneWebDay to take a moment out to reflect on and celebrate this vast human-created wellspring of innovation, creativity, knowledge, and opportunity.
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Why is OneWebDay on September 22?
It should be on November 5th.
“…celebrate this vast human-created wellspring of innovation, creativity, knowledge, and opportunity.”
I equate that to V’s speech