What can you do?

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Ian Forrester (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Ian Forrester (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ian is the senior “firestarter” at BBC R&D and a social geek based in Manchester, UK. He works in the development of the future of storytelling and public service in the internet age. He’s also a tech Inclusive Board top 100 and adviser for Nesta’s Next Generation Internet.

What can be done?

We need to build the alternatives, encourage good practices, and set clear goals for a healthier internet. As Richard Buckminster Fuller said: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Ian Forrester
Europe

What happened?

The BBC took a step closer to a human values economy and away from the attention economy by investigating what its audiences value, as opposed to what will hold their attention.

healthy

With the advance of COVID-19, global internet freedom became increasingly targeted worldwide, making data privacy and openness an afterthought at a time when we probably need them most.

unhealthy