Can ordinary people get fired up over Internet governance? Web We Want festival says yes

The organizers of the Web We Want festival at London’s Southbank Centre hope it will spark a movement that’s in some ways comparable to environmentalism.

That may be a tall order, but the Web We Want campaign, timed to run 25 years after the web was invented, is the brainchild of the World Wide Web Foundation itself. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor, is at the helm. And, refreshingly, the campaign is trying to avoid the grayness and (in my opinion) hot air of more formal efforts such as the Internet Governance Forum and Netmundial.