Name: 【TED】Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman: What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet (What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet | Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman)
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Bryn Freedman: So you said that in the 20th century,

global power was in the hands of government.

At the beginning of this digital century,

and that in the future, it would move to individuals.

and why are individuals going to win out?

Fadi Chehadé: Because companies cater to individuals,

need to start understanding that we have a big role

in shaping how the world will be governed, moving forward.

Yes, indeed, the tug of war right now is between governments,

who lost much of their power to companies

because the internet is not built around the nation-state system

It's not international, and it's not national,

and therefore the companies became very powerful.

And I fear that if we do not, as the citizenry --

which are, in my opinion, the most important leg of that stool --

The detractors, or the people telling you that businesses will prevail, are right.

BF: So are you saying that individuals will force businesses

or business will be forced to be responsive,

a small company called Skip winning over Uber and Lyft and everyone

to actually get the license for the San Francisco scooter business.

because Skip listened to the people of San Francisco,

who were tired of scooters being thrown everywhere,

but we will respond to the people's requirements

that we organize ourselves around a set of rules."

They self-governed their behavior, and they won the contract

BF: So speaking of guidelines and self-governance,

you've spent an entire lifetime creating guidelines and norms

Who is going to guide, who is going to control,

FC: The rules that govern the technology layers of the internet

and I was very busy for a few years setting those rules

around the part of the internet that makes the internet one network.

However, as we get now into the upper layers of the internet,

the issues that affect me and you every day --

the system to create norms for those unfortunately is not in place.

We have a system of cooperation and governance

that really needs to be created right now

so that companies, governments and the citizenry can agree

how this new digital world is going to advance.

BF: So what gives a digital company any incentive?

they would say they have their users' best interests at heart,

but I think a lot of people would disagree with that.

FC: It's been very difficult to watch how tech companies have reacted

to the citizenry's response to their technologies.

And some of them, two or three years ago, basically dismissed it.

The word that I heard in many board rooms is, "We're just a technology platform.

It's not my issue if my technology platform

causes families to go kill their girls in Pakistan.

where companies are starting to realize this is no longer sustainable,

that's coming from people, users, citizens,

but also governments that are starting to say,

So I think there is a maturity that is starting to set,

where people are beginning to say, "We have a role."

"Look, you could be the CEO, a very successful CEO of a company,

"You could be a steward of the power you have

to shape the lives and the economies of billions of people.

And the answer is, it's not one or the other.

So when an adult like Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft,

【TED】Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman: What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet (What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet | Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman)

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