Is the Internet still open? Is it still free and decentralized as it was in the beginning? Is it safe? Is the education to the web tools sufficient for everyone to play a role?
The Mozilla Foundation, which created the Firefox browser and several other open Web technologies, is continuing the process it began last year to conduct a "health check" of the Internet.
"The Internet Health Monitor focuses on the human dimension of Internet access and use. It is an independent, open-source compilation of data, studies, and stories that presents the evolution of the Internet each year from five perspectives... It aims to establish links and look for possible trends between often compartmentalized topics, to study the relationship between Internet users and the Internet."In doing so, the Foundation hopes to "encourage a broader understanding of how the problems that affect the Internet globally are interconnected, and highlight citizen actions to improve the health of this ecosystem."
Combining information from several sources, this health check brings together data on five key themes:
- Decentralization: Who controls the Internet?
- Internet Education: Towards Equal Opportunities?
- Digital Inclusion: Who is welcome online?
- Open: How open?
- Privacy and security: Is the Internet a safe place?
The Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes the idea that the Internet should always remain a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Our mission is based on the Mozilla manifesto.The Mozilla Foundation's primary mission is to initiate a movement to defend a free Internet. It does this by connecting free Internet leaders and mobilizing activists around the world.
The foundation is also the sole shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation, which provides Firefox software and other open source tools. Mozilla Corporation operates as a self-sustaining social enterprise: money earned from its products is reinvested in the organization.
The Foundation's programs focus on three areas:
- Plan future actions to build the free Internet we want:
- Connecting leaders
- Bringing citizens together to cultivate a global force of tens of millions prepared to defend the rights of web citizens.
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