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Mozilla Releases New Open Source 'Internet Health Report' (venturebeat.com)
Slashdot reader Krystalo shared this VentureBeat article:
Fresh off its brand redesign, Mozilla has released The Internet Health Report, an open-source initiative to document the state of the internet, combining research and reporting from multiple sources... Mozilla's goal is to start a constructive discussion about the health of the internet by exploring what is currently healthy and unhealthy, as well as what lies ahead...
One notable statistic is the number of people who can't get online in the first place. The report shows that 57.8% of the world's population cannot afford broadband internet, and 39.5% cannot afford an internet connection on their mobile device. Other findings include the fact that there were 51 intentional internet shutdowns across 18 countries in the first 10 months of 2016; almost one-third of the world's population has no data protection rights; and 52% of all websites are in English, even though only 25% of the global population understands the language.
They're now gathering feedback and choosing which metrics to revisit every year, but five key topics include "decentralization: who controls the internet" and "open innovation: how open is it?" as well as security, web literacy, and digital inclusion. But Mozilla says their ultimate goal is very simple: to identify what's helping -- and what's hurting -- the internet.
One notable statistic is the number of people who can't get online in the first place. The report shows that 57.8% of the world's population cannot afford broadband internet, and 39.5% cannot afford an internet connection on their mobile device. Other findings include the fact that there were 51 intentional internet shutdowns across 18 countries in the first 10 months of 2016; almost one-third of the world's population has no data protection rights; and 52% of all websites are in English, even though only 25% of the global population understands the language.
They're now gathering feedback and choosing which metrics to revisit every year, but five key topics include "decentralization: who controls the internet" and "open innovation: how open is it?" as well as security, web literacy, and digital inclusion. But Mozilla says their ultimate goal is very simple: to identify what's helping -- and what's hurting -- the internet.
Its pointless to translate all the world's content into countless languages. Instead, we should have one lingua franca that everyone understands. Chinese has maybe more total speakers than english, but english is already now used as lingua franca in many areas around the world. Also, then we maybe can understand each other better and have a more peaceful world.
Can I take the open source code and generate my own report about my own internet in my own parallel universe?
And then I got sleepy.
Mozilla thinks it's the judge? Snore.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
It's a homo sapiens only club around here.
Hey, are you trying to kill Mozilla's efforts to refresh their brand experience? You're aware they have a new logo now, right? What's with the logo-shaming? I thought Slashdot was better than this. Disappointed.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Hmmm, funny how most of those who can't afford the internet fall into the Comcast service area.
Or an easier language than English.
From the summary: "The report shows that 57.8% of the world's population cannot afford broadband internet"
In the 2010s, Internet access has become a necessity to find and keep a job. But how is Internet access at home a necessity? I've found a bunch of people on Slashdot and elsewhere who claim that home Internet is a luxury, as opposed to (say) Internet access at the local public library or in a restaurant.
Instead of wasting money on useless reports like this, they should put some money toward fixing Firefox. Get the goddamn multiprocess support working. Fix the excessive memory usage. Reduce the CPU usage. Get rid of Australis. Fix all of the other stupid changes that have been made these past few years. They should do something useful.
Basically, the fact that Firefox basically chased away all their programming talent, and now have some cockeyed scheme to basically just wrap Chrome as "their" browser is VASTLY unhealthy.
On the flip side, it basically renders them utterly incapable of actually having a worthwhile opinion on the health of Open Source. Because they're essentially a marketing company now (and a shitty one at that). Basically Mozilla has become the symbol for pure lack of any discernible shred of excellence.
Like Warner Bros. "Acme Products", only not funny.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
It's obvious you're overstaffed; time to do some rightsizing, and purge the excess humans.
There already is a Web page called "Internet Health Report" at http://internetpulse.keynote.c.... It has been reporting the status of the U.S. backbone providers since possibly 1993 (23+ years). At least, that was when the domain keynote.com was first registered.
It reports latency in msec, percent availability, and percent of packets lost. The page is copyrighted. The terms of service indicate there might be a trademark on the name "Internet Health Report".
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New brand design, Internet health report... I would be more pleased if Mozilla could focus on writing good software instead.
What sound does a pussy fart make?
This is a smart move by Mozilla to capture these societal metrics because you have to be a poor third world niger to think their browser is any good.
I think we in modern civilization don't understand not everyone lives in the internet world. Or even care that they do not. Yet even in third world countries they have more important issues like lack of running water, electrical service that's reliable or sewage treatment facilities. Internet is probably not on their list of got to have services. Although if your wealthier than most you probably at least have a satellite service or dial up if you have a phone line. Or you can go to a facility that provides access to the internet. Obviously the one thing that limits a service like internet is infrastructure to provide it and a lack of funds and citizens that can afford it. Also the space populations in many areas do not justify spending millions to run services like internet to places where very few can afford to even buy the service.
Funny how the web site loads without scroll bars in Chrome. Seems like they want to force people to use another browser...