Rewilding the Internet
The next big idea for the web? Rewilding it. We need to treat it like a damaged and degraded natural habitat – it’s a huge, scary job to fix the web’s many social and economic harms, and its monocultural fragility, but a few key and courageous changes will help it to regenerate itself.
To get there, we need openness and competition, interoperability, transparency about how we fund key infrastructure like browsers, and lots of room for new business models.
This keynote will inform and inspire you, empowering you to think bigger and better about how we build and maintain a web that supports us all.
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.
She 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.