Welcome to Mozilla’s new open source initiative to document and explain what’s happening to the health of the Internet.
 
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Index
How do we measure Internet health?
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Calling all citizens of the Internet
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Issues
// How open is it?
// Open Innovation
 
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// Who is welcome online?
// Digital Inclusion p8
// Who controls the Internet?
// Decentralization
 
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// Is it safe and secure?
// Privacy and Security
 
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// Who can succeed online?
// Web literacy
 
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Featured Stories
Inside an Internet shutdown
// Open Innovation p29
Your selfie at the Eiffel Tower
// Open Innovation p31
When the Internet doesn’t speak your language
// Digital Inclusion p32
People powered phones within range
// Digital Inclusion p34
Giving artists control of their music
// Decentralization
 
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Building a better blockchain
// Decentralization p36
Let’s Encrypt: Making the Web safer
// Privacy and Security p37
Dutch pranksters turn surveillance into art
// Privacy and Security p38
Teaching encryption in Harlem
// Web literacy p39
Why don’t more women Code?
// Web literacy p40
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How do we measure Internet health?
Welcome to Mozilla’s new open source initiative to document and explain what’s happening to the health of the Internet. Combining research from multiple sources, we collect data on five key topics and offer a brief overview of each.
The Internet truly is an ecosystem: a critical one that billions of people depend on. Like any ecosystem, its health impacts everything – and everyone – that lives inside it. Also, the health of each piece of the ecosystem impacts the others. Everything is connected.Our aim is to produce an annual report that will foster a constructive conversation about the health of the Internet. Once we begin thinking of it as a living ecosystem in all its complexity — which can be healthier in some parts than others — we can also better approach solutions. The Internet is shaped by our actions, whether good or bad.This is the 0.1 version of the report. It is a prototype and a snapshot of our current thinking on issues that matter. We take a look at what we think is healthy and unhealthy in the Internet ecosystem today and offer an initial prognosis of where things are headed. We touch on policy, technology, public opinion and much more. But what’s next?We invite you – our community and allies working for Internet health – to comment and engage on the text and offer feedback on the general approach and format of the project.This will allow us to work openly on figuring out how to assess the state of the Internet from year to year, and how to identify solutions that can inspire worldwide action for a healthier Internet. Solana Larsen is editor of the report, you can email her.Over the next months we will be forming a community to collaborate on ideas, research and numbers for version 1.0 of the report, which we will release at the end of 2017.
Roadmap
 January:
Release v_0.1 of Internet Health Report (prototype)
February to March:
Gather feedback on prototype and ideas for v_1.0; Summarize feedback and other resources in new blog
 April to June:
Decide on metrics to revisit every year as a minimum Collaborate with partners to identify research questions
 July to September:
 Collaboratively shape next version of the report with key allies
October to December:
 Launch v1.0 of Internet Health Report
 About Mozilla
Mozilla’s mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. We’re a global com-munity of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible, so people worldwide can be informed contributors and creators of the Web. These are our core issues.
Credits:
This report (v. 0.1) was created with input from across Mozilla and feedback from friends. It was translated by Global Voices and Mozilla’s L10n translators. Nice & Serious designed and built the website. Data was gathered by A Bit of Data.See full credits here.
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