IGF 2021 WS #25
Internet for all, Internet as a Public good

The nature of public goods is it's equity of access they offer to it's users, everyone has an equal chance to fully integrate with the resource and use it to fulfill a purpose. For example Public infrastructure is sacred in how it has heightened human connection by mobility and movement that has facilitated the transfer of cultures, knowledge and intelligence without regard to borders rather endless transfer to everyone in every corner of the world facilitating business and integration. This is integration for progress Roads, bridges, railways and tunnels have facilitated this and are funded by the government and conductors of business through the channels and have equal backing and inclusion in using public infrastructure without exclusion it's about time we make the internet as public good that will be freely, accessible and decentralized to further human progress, interaction and transfer of knowledge and resources. Especially in the pandemic, we have seen how the interconnected infrastructure is important in progressing human affairs as it's part of this generation's fabric of reality. Businesses, Governments wouldn't have survived as they have in the pandemic without the internet and its innovation that have included our virtual selves in a unitary family pushing for equity and progression of humanity in harmony. Yet, It's the time where governance of the internet has become capitalistic driven ruthless in its equity spread and normative contributions to the world economy, rather a tool of selfishness, manipulation, control, capitalist wrong ideas that have changed the internet as a solace of independent thought to a Star product milking peoples resources for selfish gains. We have seen how internet advertising and social media have shaken democratic elections with foreign interference, the hacking of elections, the push of division with misinformation, disinformation and online extremism, how the top 1% have mostly internet technology conglomerates have more money and resources than half of the world. Is this equal? Equal access? Decentralized and unifying to opportunity of equal human prosperity? It is not and these underlying impacts caused by privatizing the internet for profit, and not pushing for its access in usability, functionality, protection, opportunity to all nature as it was built to be, A Public good. The internet should be a public good worth being respected and protected in it's servitude to all without segregation nor oppression. Taxing corporations and their digitizing systems to re educate labor force to be equipped with skillsets brought by it's automation and modern 4th industrial revolution economy, Governments pushing for subsidies and grants in the building of equal access infrastructures of broadband and wireless connectivity infrastructures, The world collectively passing policy for the internet of all, for all and by all. A unifying extension of human interaction in a harmonious prospering connection. We have the ability to equip our young generation to the opportunities some missed due to lack of quality information, education, resources that others had. With the Internet education is instantly passed and intelligence is real-time, so are the opportunities to work, build online innovations and creations that will save the world. Quantum mechanics computers interestingly interacting with the atoms of the universe and the universe in atoms in our solar system and within us and beyond. The power of the internet in empowering equal generations, with more solutions of sustaining humanity to the next frontier generations, more wealth built for the unconnected, the oppressed and marginalized group from the internet and they have an equal playing field with the internet and build modern economic democracies that equally rely on the normative principle of an equal progressive mutually inclusive Earth and unified healing humanity. These are the narratives we can get with the open opportunity of declaring the internet as a public good for all and they have social and economic policy sets attached in the aspect of equal distribution of resources to sustain human dignity and prosperity for all.