Is the Internet Sick? Findings from Mozilla's Internet Health Report

Presented at The Circle Of HOPE (2018), July 20, 2018, 4 p.m. (60 minutes)

Our personal credit details have been stolen en masse. Social media has been weaponized as a tool of cruel harassment. The democratic process has been undermined by the manipulation of online news and ads. We are beginning to see the health of the Internet as not just a technical issue, but a human one. Mozilla's Internet Health Report is an open-source project that documents and explains how people worldwide are interacting with and affected by our connected world. The report aims to provide a "big picture" of the global state of health of the Internet through the prism of five core issues: privacy and security, openness, digital inclusion, web literacy, and decentralization. This talk will share findings from the 2018 Internet Health Report, and examine how we might use the concept of "Internet health" as a catalyst for change in our communities.

Presenters:

• Jairus Khan
  **Jairus Khan** is a designer, hacker, noise musician, activist, and recovering goth. He works on Mozilla’s Internet Health Report, an open-source project that documents and examines the health of the Internet as not only a technical issue, but a human one. Before joining Mozilla, he was a strategist for the Internet Society, the nonprofit parent organization of the Internet Engineering Task Force. His resume includes developing open-source rules of engagement for the European Central Bank, managing international concert tours, and unsuccessfully lobbying the Bank of Canada to have Wolverine replace Sir Wilfred Laurier on the Canadian five dollar bill.

Links:

• https://xii.hope.net/schedule.html#-is-the-internet-sick-findings-from-mozilla-s-internet-health-report-
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Is the Internet Sick Findings from Mozilla’s Internet Health Report.mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/The Circle of HOPE (2018)/The Circle of HOPE (2018) Is the Internet Sick Findings from Mozilla’s Internet Health Report.eng.srt (subtitles)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBWi2D6r1o

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