Webinar on "Building User Owned Internet" for Kalasalingam University. Presented by Wilson Bright of BlockSurvey.

1. JUNE. 5, 2020 • BLOCKSURVEY
Building a user
owned internet

2. Agenda
DO WE OWN OUR INTERNET?
Physical vs Digital
Who owns it?
HOW CAN WE SOLVE?
Mesh Networks & Blockchain
Network, Identity and Data ownership
Path to decentralized era
BUILD A USER OWNED
INTERNET
Own your network, identity and data
How to build?
Resources

3. Physical
vs
Digital World
Both worlds have converged.
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
You are an enhanced human.
DIGITAL WORLD
Access, security, privacy, censorship,
surveillance ethics, ownership.....
DIGITAL ISSUES

4. Who owns the digital world /
internet? Telecom & Tech giants
Internet = Network + Web Apps

5. How can we solve this?

6. Decentralized network and
web apps
Mesh Networks & Blockchain

7. Mesh
Node to Node. Routing protocol.
DEATH OF HUB & SPOKE
Sharing, Decentralized, Self healing,
Self discover.....
PRINCIPLES

8. Blockchain
An application of Blockchain.
Democratize Finance. Financial
Privacy. Decentralized Currency.
BITCOIN
Trust, Decentralized, Incentived value,
Inclusiveness, Privacy
PRINCIPLES

9. It's a protocol
Mesh Blockchain

10. Network ownership, Identity
Ownership(DID) and Data
ownership

11. Data & trust breaches are causing
consumers to second-guess data silos
Developers want more room for
innovation outside of current data-
monopolies
Developers want to reduce cost,
overhead, and liability of deploying
apps
Current era
No data-monopolies, data is user owned
and can be used in any app
Universal, password-less authentication
Apps run on user devices, explicit user opt-in
and increased security
Decentralized era

12. How to build?

16. Other Resources
BOOKS
Privacy 3.0, Surveillance Capitalism, Where will man take us?, 1984, Permanent
Record...
MOVIES
1984, Minority Report, Snowden, Imitation Game, Great Hack....
COMMUNITY
Internet Freedom Foundation, BlockStack, Mozilla, Solid

17. WILSON BRIGHT
co-founder @ BlockSurvey