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"The Web Index has now come to the end of a successful three-year pilot period. During this time, the Index blazed new trails in many areas, providing the first rigorous and comprehensive assessment of national developments in areas such as women’s rights online, surveillance, net neutrality, broadband affordability, open data and the use of the Internet to broaden access to education, jobs and health care. It has become a trusted port of call for policymakers, civil society organisations, businesses, media and individuals wanting to understand the state and impact of the Web today in their country and around the world. Now that this three year pilot phase is over, we will be refining the Index for future editions, possibly focusing on a narrower set of issues or geographies. We continue to seek partners and funding for future editions. Expect further updates in 2016 - and please get in touch if you would be interested in collaborating! Our popular spin-off products - the Affordability Report and the Open Data Barometer - will continue to be produced, and the results of both of these are expected in the first quarter of 2016, along with a deeper dive into our worrying 2014 findings on the spread of unaccountable mass surveillance. We’d like to thank the primary funders of this pilot phase - the UK Department for International Development and Google. We’re also grateful for the additional support received from Naver Corporation and the Swedish International Development Agency. To stay up to date on future announcements regarding the Web Index, please sign up for the Web Foundation’s e-mail newsletter, and follow us on Twitter."

"Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and founder of the Web Foundation, has called for the Internet to be recognised as a basic human right. At the release of the 2014-15 Web Index — the world’s first measure of the Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress — Sir Tim noted that in our increasingly unequal world, the Web has the potential to be a great equalizer, but only “if we hardwire the rights to privacy, freedom of expression, affordable access and net neutrality into the rules of the game.”   The 2014-15 edition of the Web Foundation’s annual Web Index examines key Web issues — including privacy, censorship, gender-based violence, equality and, for the first time ever, net neutrality — across 86 countries. The findings from this year’s Index point to a Web that is becoming less free and more unequal. Almost 60% of the world’s people — 4.3 billion — cannot get online, while over half of those who can access the Web live in countries that severely restrict their rights online. Indiscriminate government surveillance and online censorship are both on the rise. 84% of countries are adjudged to have weak or non-existent laws to protect citizens from indiscriminate mass surveillance, up from 63% in 2013. Meanwhile, 38% of countries are now censoring politically or socially sensitive content to a ‘moderate or extensive’ degree — an increase of 6% from 2013. In addition, only a quarter of the countries assessed this year effectively enforce clear rules to protect net neutrality.   The Web Index shows that nations that have high levels of wealth, low levels of inequality, and strong protection for civil liberties — such as top-ranked Denmark, Finland and Norway — are gaining the most social and economic benefit from the Web. The positive correlation between wealth, education and benefit from the digital revolution is a concerning trend, with the potential to further entrench global inequality and undermine the free and open Web. “This trend can and must reversed,” said Anne Jellema, CEO of the Web Foundation and lead author of the 2014-15 Web Index report.   In order to reverse this slide and leverage the power of technology to fight inequality, the Web Foundation is calling on policymakers to:"

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privacy & surveillance

do not have effective laws and practices to

protect the privacy of online communications. Learn more

gender

are not doing enough to stop online

violence against women. Learn more