#ForTheWeb is the campaign launched by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web or the Internet as we know it today. His proposal with this campaign is to combat fake news and online abuse perpetrated by hundreds of companies and people around the planet.
A global campaign that try to save the world online and protect everyone who uses it. He cites those websites that seek profit first and others in which fake news is the norm, as the main problems of the web. For which more than 50 organizations, including Facebook and Google, have already signed the "Contract for the web" campaign.
The main bases of «Contract for the web» is protect the web as a basic and public good open for everyone. Ensure that the web serves humanity and that these principles reach both people and governments and companies.
The announcement was made at the opening of the Web Summit hosted in Lisbon. During that week Berners-Lee urged governments, companies and individuals to offer support for what he has called the Magna Carta for the web.
And it is that, when we are about half the world being able to go online In 2019, this contract seems, more than ever, totally basic to foster the foundations for an open internet in which all the most important and valuable human arguments are respected.
Berners-Lee cites as for many years you had the feeling that all wonderful things on the web they would be to have a world with less conflict, more understanding and better science and democracy. But the truth is that more and more people are disillusioned with the headlines that center most of the news.
The contract demands that governments make the internet available to all your citizens all the time. That is to say, that it is affordable and becomes a basic good such as water, light ...
Neither the appointment to respect for private consumption is missing and personal data, so that technologies are secured to ensure that people come first. Now we will see where all this is and if it becomes a reality.