Blog Forum Gdańsk 2012, dzień 1. William Echikson: Bloggers ultimate guide to impact the future.

1. Bloggers ultimate goal
TO IMPACT THE FUTURE
Presenter: Bill Echikson
Head of Free Expression, EMEA
Google

2. Web is the most powerful communication tool in history
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3. UGC is fuelling web growth
325 millionwebsites online in May
2011

4. UGC is fuelling web growth
5 exabytes of data created
each day in 2011

5. UGC is fuelling web growth
250,000 words per minutewritten on
Blogger

6. UGC is fuelling web growth
72 hours of video
uploaded to YouTube per minute

7. UGC is fuelling web growth
70,000 photos
uploaded to Facebook per minute
as of mid- 2011

8. UGC is fuelling web growth
100,000 tweets
posted per minute as of March 2011

9. Web is a powerful force for societal transformation

10. Technology is a double-edged sword

11. Example: Iran

12. Growing threat of Internet censorship

13. Google's default position is to let information flow
EXTRA

14. We seek to be transparent about government requests
EXTRA

15. Example: Transparency report
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16. Example: Web traffic visualisation
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17. Example: Speak2Tweet in Egypt

18. The Global Network Initiative
Global Network Initiative

19. European political support for freedom of expression

20. European political support for freedom of expression
“When you set people free you set the
conditions for society and the economy to
develop… The most important instrument of
change in our time is the Internet”
– Swedish Foreign Minister, Carl Bildt

21. European political support for freedom of expression
“Respect for media pluralism, protection of
journalists’ sources, freedom to criticise private
and government powers… are all essential for the
full exercise of freedom of expression, and the
Commission is fully committed to the defence of
fundamental rights”
– Vice President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes

22. European political support for freedom of expression
“Promoting internet freedom is vital… Freedom
of expression opens the gate to the enjoyment of
many other human rights. Without it, the road to
the rule of law and democracy remains closed.
And free trade is being hindered”
– Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Uri Rosenthal

23. THANK YOU