September 22 – OneWebDay

Do you use the Internet?  Why do you use it? How often? Is it useful or not? What can you do with the help of Internet? Online shopping, learning foreign languages, finding new meetings? Searching for your gorgeous Russian bride? But however that may be, there is no doubt that the Internet had become a necessary part in people’s everyday life. That’s a necessary and important enough thing to have its own day for celebration. It is September 22, and it is an annual day of Internet celebration called OneWebDay.

Susan Crawford founded OneWebDay in order to celebrate the web as well as to highlight the role of the Internet in our life. You can be in touch with the people all around the world; you can properly communicate with your relatives and friends if they live the other end of the world even. Japan, Australia, Russia? No problem now. World news, amazing recipes from best chefs, booking hotels and buying tickets are possible today with the help of web. You can find and get useful information in minutes, so the Internet becomes a part of your day activities. That’s true, however, that the Internet wastes your time. A little time to chat, a little to instagram, a little to check your mail or read some news…and good-bye, a few hours!

Information is a great power. The founders and supporters of OneWebDay share the idea of free flow the information. In order to support this idea, they created a special celebration, and the first OneWebDay was held on September 22, 2006. Since 2006, this event became global. The OneWebDay founders’ motto is “The Internet for everyone” and reflects either the benefits of an Open Internet or an idea of a global constituency that cares about the web future. Each year the OneWebDay has a definite theme concerning aspects of web usage. Last year’s event concentrated on theme was advancing local content. OneWebDay-2013 theme is accessibility. It was agreed so in remembrance of Cynthia Waddell, the web accessibility advocate died in April 2013. She was the Executive Director of the International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet and developed a test of web accessibility called “Cynthia Says”. So if you use web resources, share the idea of free information for all and everyone, today is a perfect chance to celebrate OneWebDay by greeting your friends and enjoying all preferences of free communication. What about chat?

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