internet access as a right
Feb. 1st, 2011 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eWhat a cool project this is.
Kostas Grammatis is trying to buy a communications satellite from a bankrupt telecommunications company. He wants to reposition it so that it is in place to provide free internet access to the poorest people in the world. The project is using crowd-sourcing as a way to fund the project -- at least in the initial stages. The idea is to later get investors, so they can resell higher quality access to paying customers to pay for the free access for all.
http://buythissatellite.org
It is a project of http://www.ahumanright.org which aims to connect everyone.
I don't think that internet is an absolute human right, but I do think that if we want to build a viable society, one that won't crumble and fall under pain and mistreatment of its individuals then we need to consider communications as if it was a right. It makes very good sense for us to improve the wealth and well-being available to us all because it has a multiplying effect. Making the poorest people safer and richer makes those who are already well-off more wealthy and more secure too.
It is in everybody's interests to fix the world.
Kostas Grammatis is trying to buy a communications satellite from a bankrupt telecommunications company. He wants to reposition it so that it is in place to provide free internet access to the poorest people in the world. The project is using crowd-sourcing as a way to fund the project -- at least in the initial stages. The idea is to later get investors, so they can resell higher quality access to paying customers to pay for the free access for all.
http://buythissatellite.org
It is a project of http://www.ahumanright.org which aims to connect everyone.
I don't think that internet is an absolute human right, but I do think that if we want to build a viable society, one that won't crumble and fall under pain and mistreatment of its individuals then we need to consider communications as if it was a right. It makes very good sense for us to improve the wealth and well-being available to us all because it has a multiplying effect. Making the poorest people safer and richer makes those who are already well-off more wealthy and more secure too.
It is in everybody's interests to fix the world.
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Date: 2011-02-01 02:18 am (UTC)"Rights" are just those things that we as societies try to agree that everyone should actually have the benefit of, because their universal presence benefits everyone.
Modern communications is one of those things that I certainly think everyone should have the benefit of, and should be considered a "right" in that sense.