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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has warned that social and economic progress from being online is being constrained because billions of young people are being excluded from accessing it.
In an open letter published with Web Foundation co-founder Rosemary Leith to mark the 32nd birthday of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim said young people were the key to driving positive change in the world.
However, it highlighted figures which showed that one in three people aged 15 to 24 have no access to the internet and two-thirds of those aged under 25 – 2.2 billion people globally – had no internet access at home.
Too many young people around the world are excluded from accessing the internet, and getting them online should be a priority for the post-Covid era, Tim Berners-Lee has said. In a letter published to mark the 32nd birthday of the web, its founder says the opportunity “to reimagine our world and create something better” in the aftermath of Covid-19 must be channelled to getting internet access to the third of people aged between 15 and 24 who.
The inventor of the world wide web writes in a new post that governments must work to ensure global broadband access by the year 2030 or risk losing new ideas and innovations that could serve humanity.
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Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has co-authored an open letter with Rosemary Leith, calling for internet connectivity for all young people around the world.
According to Berners-Lee and Leith, who co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right, funding for network infrastructure, subsidies and support for community networks makes it entirely possible to provide internet access to all young people.