Web@30:A Vote for Digital Ethics

Pearls are enduring and last under pressure, so is the web. But in its Pearl-jubilee, not all are shining in the web as pearls do. Is World Wide Web the web we would love to have in every respect? Tim Berners-Lee, whose initial proposal at CERN, Geneva in March 1989 opened the way to a technological revolution which influenced human kind more than anything, appeared a bit dismayed in his words of reminiscence during the Web@30 conference at CERN to commemorate the 30 years of Web. His dismay is not without reason. With tremendous impact, WWW has made the world smaller, more comfortable to live in in terms of convenience in transacting business of any kind in its broadest sense, has facilitated prefixing the ever so attractive word digital to many an entity, like digital world, digital economy, digital art, digital entertainment et cetera, with far reaching applications. Digital citizenry potentially unfolds when any child, teen, or adult signs up for an email address, posts pictures online, uses e-commerce to buy merchandise online, or participates in any electronic function that is B2C or B2B; then a netizen is born. Netizen population as on March 2019 has reached 56% of world population