Principles for the web
Last week, my friend Sara Joy shared this amazing set of Ethical Web Principles from the W3C with me.
Those principles are…
- There is one web
- The web does not cause harm to society
- The web supports healthy community and debate
- The web is for all people
- The web is secure, and respects peoples’ privacy
- The web enables freedom of expression
- The web makes it possible to verify information
- The web enhances individuals’ control and power
- The web is an environmentally sustainable platform
- The web is transparent
- The web is multi-browser, multi-OS and multi-device
- People can render web content as they want
It feels a bit like a Hippocratic Oath for web devs.
It looks like it’s a draft note, just published sometime in the last three weeks. But damn, does our industry need something like this.
On the W3C website, each principle is explored in a bit more detail. Click here to check out out.