We Need To Rewild The Internet
Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon’s viral article, We Need to Rewild the Internet, set the stage for a whole new policy conversation about internet and web decentralisation in the US and Europe. But what does internet rewilding mean for technologists?
Chokepoints and tech monocultures create global digital fragility, as the Microsoft/Crowdstrike debacle showed all too well, but we have alternatives. We can make different, more resilient choices.
This informative and inspiring keynote works through the layers, languages, organisations, technologies and applications of the Web to show us that when it comes to regenerating a decent online habitat for us all to live and flourish in, ecologists have figured a lot of it out already.
Maria Farrell
A graduate of University College Dublin, the Dublin Institute of Technology and the London School of Economics, Maria Farrell worked in technology policy for twenty years, including at The World Bank, ICANN, the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, the Confederation of British Industry and The Law Society of England and Wales.
Maria has written for The Guardian, Conversationalist, New European, Slate, Medium, the Irish Times and Irish Independent, and appeared as a tech expert on BBC, Sky News, NBC and TRT.