Bob Majirioghene Etemiku
A fundamental question which arose from the breakthrough of the internet was the expediency of giving everybody access. That question came at a time in the early 80s after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of Communist USSR and the fall of the Cold War era, where state official and unofficial secrecy was the lifeblood running right through the arteries of most dictatorships. In a letter addressed to the US Federal Communications Commission, FCC, originator of the internet, Tim Berners Lee, together with 20 others argued that threats to openness in governance compromised basic human rights.