**He visited a shopkeeper on the corner, and taught them how to hack.** The shopkeeper () for his store, and his whole family left () about the possibilities of the web.

It’s about giving back to your community and helping people near you. **Sometimes to make a difference, you want to go outside your home.** Teaching your neighbors is a natural next step. The web is a platform that helps the family find new things to make and to share them with the world. Together they try out fun projects each week and use the web to blog about them. And now this year, bolstered by her new confidence in teaching, she’s organizing a ().Īnd there’s Brendan, who started a (). At home, she’s taught her mother and father how to make the web. Under the mentorship of (), she’s gone from learning about the web to teaching it. Just help the people in your living room. Like the (), **teaching the web at home doesn’t cost anything and is sustainable.** You don’t have to worry about big budgets or outreach. **Activism starts at home.** You begin with the people you care about, the people closest you. **It’s grassroots, it’s modest, but it’s a start.** I’d like to share some stories about **people who volunteer to ().** Be it in their homes, their neighborhood shops, their city squares, or wherever, these are real stories about people who want to empower users of the web. This is a valuable lesson and one that should trump flashy apps or simple convenience.

It is fun and useful to participate online while still controlling your data. To get there, we **need to help people discover the joy of making things on the web.** It’s important to show that the web is not a scary place. We want to help people take control of their digital lives-and **foster a user-centric web.** We can (). We believe in **user empowerment that balances free expression online with a respect for user privacy.** While it’s only a very small piece of a larger effort, **I’m proud to be working with people who care about a third way.** These days, with all the Prism/Tempura surveillance we’re learning about, **one can feel quite powerless.**įor many it seems that there are just two responses: to either disengage with the web and () or to shrug and say ()

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