Movement for a Better Internet

Guided by a public interest vision and agenda we build together, reflecting shared values like openness, diversity, privacy, and equity.

About the Movement

The internet lies at a crossroads. It is a tool for information sharing and community building, but it is also fraught with harms that must be addressed like disinformation, deceptive privacy practices, and consolidated gatekeeper power. The next iteration of the internet is already being built as Web3 and the metaverse sweep across the digital landscape. Our current internet and the emerging innovations could be something better: an internet shaped by the public interest values we all share. An internet that works better for everyone.

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Image of the Movement for a Better Internet panel

“Better Internet Session” by Anna Tumadóttir licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Building the Movement

We’ve been busy! Organizing Partners for the Movement for a Better Internet have been talking about the movement’s goals at convenings such as Library Forum, DWeb Camp, Unfinished Live, Knight Foundation’s INFORMED: Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age, and the webinar, Policies for a Better Internet: Securing Digital Rights for Libraries.

More news and events from organizations in the movement:

17 April 2024 Pop-Up Policy Lab: Perspectives on Copyright Consent in AI Training

Internet Archive

04 Apr 2024

Internet Archive will engage members and non-members in an April 2024 Pop-Up Policy Lab to explore how the community views copyright and AI training so that a Better Internet centers and works for a diverse array of people.

Policy Lab: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Creativity

Creative Commons

04 Apr 2024

Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and Public Knowledge engaged members in an October 2023 Policy Lab to discuss generative artificial intelligence and the future of creativity.

Dispatches From Wikimania: Values for Shaping AI Towards a Better Internet - Fall 2023

Creative Commons

07 Feb 2024

Creative Commons engaged participants at Wikimania on August 15, 2023 to shape how AI fits into the people-powered policy agenda of the Movement for a Better Internet.

Promoting and Protecting the Decentralized Web: Report from DWeb Camp - Summer 2023

Movement for a Better Internet

21 Dec 2023

This report reflects findings from the collaborative efforts of DWeb technologists, activists, public interest organizations, and stakeholders who convened in a workshop at DWeb Camp in the Summer of 2023.

Generative AI: Opportunities, Concerns & Solutions from MozFest 2023

Movement for a Better Internet

04 May 2023

Our report on what participants in our MozFest workshop are thinking about generative artificial intelligence. Does AI offer opportunities and risks that are within our power to shape and control?

Securing Digital Rights for Libraries

Internet Archive

01 Dec 2022

Internet Archive, in collaboration with the Movement for a Better Internet, released “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet,” the culmination of a months-long process consulting with leading experts from libraries, civil society, and academia regarding libraries’ role in shaping the next iteration of the internet.

Join Our Movement for a Better Internet

Movement for a Better Internet is a collaborative effort to ensure that the internet’s evolution is guided by public interest values. Our movement brings together diverse voices, facilitates connections, shares resources, and drives policy change based on a shared public interest vision and agenda we will build together for an internet that benefits us all.

We’re inviting organizations passionate about creating this better internet to join the movement. If you’re an advocate, academic, or activist working to shape tech policy on behalf of the public interest, we’d like to elevate and amplify your work. Help make a better internet a reality by signing up your organization.

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