Let's reflect on the Contract for the Web, Principle 7 by various authors:
Be creators and collaborators on the Web - so the Web has rich and relevant content for everyone - by being active participants in shaping the Web, including content and systems made available through it, such as by:
Leveraging and promoting the use of open licenses to share information of public interest.
Sharing best practices and guidelines to help create and develop a Web focused on the needs of citizens.
Advocating for standard technology that is open and accessible to all persons, regardless of their abilities.
Producing or translating content into local minority languages.
Notice how the authors of the Contract for the Web connect richness and relevance of digital content with the concepts of openness, co-creation, standardization, accessibility and respect to an individual’s culture. Digital content, in this sense, becomes a medium that can enable cross-border and cross-culture communication, inspire discourse over the Internet and promote co-creation.
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