Daniel Appelquist talks about the ‘Open Web’ and Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s new ‘Contract for the Web’

Daniel and I have known each other for over a decade. We first
met when he was the 
Web & Internet Evangelist for Vodafone.


We talked about Sir Tim's recent BBC Reith interview and Tim's
new Contract for the Web.


Today the web is being fragmented by countries like Russia, China
and Iran to name but a few countries limiting their citizens
access to stop free speech. Fake News is rife everywhere and our
privacy is rapidly eroding as our permission on our data is
centrally controlled.


Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the 'permissionless' one
web space 30 years ago is in danger of crumbling under
the weight of the behemoth centralised control of the GAFA's
(Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) and BAT's (Bidu, Alibaba and
TenCent) who want to control all of our personal data for their
profit.


Daniel and I talked about these challenges but also the new Web
3.0 technologies like Blockchain, AI and DNS-SEC that is making
the web decentralised, ethical, open, free and secure.