Internet Access as Human Right

Interesting developments in the UN this past week linking Internet access to
freedom of expression ­ see here: http://j.mp/jv4KrW (LA Times Article).

At the same time, one of the topics of discussion at the Federated Social
Web (W3C) Workshop in Berlin which I just attended was the use of the
(social) Web in the events leading up to the Egyptian uprising. There is a
great talk from Amr Gharbeia streambale from here:
http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/

We held a follow-up session on the topic of how the Web could become a
better tool for this kind of activism (e.g. degrading to peer to peer).
Notes were taken by Harry Halpin at this session ­ Harry, could I possibly
ask you to send those notes and your thoughts to the TAG mailing list?

Thanks,
Dan  

PS related to user privacy, strongly suggest watching Aleecia McDonald¹s
presentation on economics of advertising and users¹ perceptions of privacy
(also linked from http://d-cent.org/fsw2011/). It¹s an eye-opener.