SiliconBeat

Tuesday is OneWebDay, the fourth annual celebration dedicated to broadening participation in the Web and highlighting issues related to its use. You can read more about the event at the official Web site here.

If you get a chance, try to catch one of the local events in your area. The most promising Bay Area gathering will be in Berkeley hosted by the Media Alliance and The Berkeley Center for New Media. According to the agenda:

When: 12pm to 1pm
Location: UC Berkeley Center for New Media
Street: 340 Moffit, Across from the Free Speech Movement Cafe
City/Town: University of California at Berkeley
Phone: 510-832-9000

With Mitchell Kapor – Co-Founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation
Professor Steven Weber – Author of The Success of Open Source

Shel Waggener – UC Berkeley Chief Information Officer

Jay Walsh - Wikimedia Foundation

David Glover - Director, OCCUR - Oakland Citizens Committee for Urban Renewal

Professor Nicholas de Monchaux - College of Environmental Design

Tracy Rosenberg – Executive Director of Media Alliance

OneWebDay was envisioned by Obama Technology advisor and open technology advocate Susan Crawford as the Internet’s “Earth Day” – a celebration of all things web with a serious purpose – to protect a free and democratic Internet. The goal of celebrating OneWebDay each year is to make visible a global constituency that cares about the future of the Internet.

According to Ms. Crawford, “Earth Day was the model when I founded OneWebDay in 2006. In 1969, one man asked the people to do what their elected representatives would not: take the future of the environment into their own hands. Peoples’ lives now are as dependent on the Internet as they are on roads, energy supplies and running water. We can no longer take that for granted, and we must advocate for the Internet politically and support its vitality personally.”

Now chaired by Elecronic Frontier Foundation co-founder Mitchell Kapor, OneWebDay is in its fourth year and marked by volunteer-driven efforts in over 35 cities across the country and across the globe. This event marks the inaugural OneWebDay activity on the UC Berkeley campus.

Join the Center for New Media and Media Alliance to hear about the growing phenomenon of OneWebDay, celebrate the power of the Web for positive change, and how to take action to protect what is precious about it.

This event will feature the release of the Media and Democracy Coalition’s position paper “A Public Interest Internet Agenda”, www.media-democracy.net/node/510