With over a billion people engaging in a collective activity, today's Internet is one of humanity's largest social movements, reflecting the kind of social interaction and collective achievement activists like us struggle for world-wide: fundamentally collaborative, democratic and based almost entirely on tools and software that has been produced collaboratively, developed by large, democratic communities and distributed freely. It is truly international and resilient against constant attempts to control its direction and curtail its positive growth.
In this gathering, we seek to collaboratively write an Internet Justice Bill of Rights using an innovative approach involving group process, the web, and a decision making mechanisms that build direct engagement with others. We will examine among other topics what the Internet really means for us and our movements and how we as progressive activists can work inside the Internet to broaden its positive impact.