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AutorAmali De Silva-Mitchell
Ocupação do AutorChartered. Professional Accountant, Economist and followed a masters degree in Computer Science at Imperial College (UK)
Páginas129-132
129The Value of Internet Openness in Times of Crisis
Covid-19 is unseen, unforeseen, uncontactable, unruly, undermining, and
we are unprepared to meet it’s challenge of us! One of the greatest threats
to humanity in modern times, too small an opponent to the naked eye,
Corvid-19, snuffed out life as we know it. Like a stop light, the direction flashed
red and society stopped in its tracks. Dead still, we have lived, almost like cave
men watching the carvings on the cave wall, for a sign of movement and wishing
it would move, some-how.
Like a silent movie we are re-starting society and human interaction frame by
frame. The normal colourful movie of our lives, backed up in time, to black and
white silent movies. We have progressed in opening up physical human inter-
action from stage 1 to stage 2 and now in most countries stage 3, where stage 4
is the old normal. The Internet and its “openness” immediately became our
“band aid” and our means of human to human interaction, became, predomi-
nantly human to computer interaction, when we dove in to Stage 1 lock-down.
So, what is Internet openness and why is it important to everyone, everywhere,
right now?
Access is the first word that springs to mind. Then lack of barriers and bound-
aries; no restrictions; transparency; no discrimination; the same for all; freedom
of expression; perfection of human rights and civil liberties; privacy; trust in
those that govern the space and ethics, as set by modern liberal societies, are but
a few features as to what Internet openness can mean1. Each person will see the
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Amali De Silva-Mitchell
Open Internet is Always an Inclusive
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