AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions, Trust, Tolerance & Empathy
KEYWORDS
blockchain, right to knowledge, equality, free internet
COUNTRY
Belgium
DESIGNED BY
Kristof de Spiegeleer, CEO
WEBSITE
https://threefold.io/index.html
Threefold network
A co-owned internet that empowers equality, freedom and sustainability
In 2016, the United Nations officially declared Internet access to be a human right. The right to internet access aims to protect people’s freedom of expression and opinion, as well as other fundamentals such as access to knowledge and information.
Yet as of today, about 48% of humanity remains unconnected to the Internet, creating huge inequalities in the access to information and knowledge. It is important that the right steps are taken to improve the relationship between governments and citizens and to uphold all human rights.
To make the new internet accessible and equal to all, ThreeFold Network built an infrastructure that is affordable to all and collectively owned by the network peers. To ensure a fair and equal distribution of the internet to everyone, fully sponsored capacity will be deployed in remote regions of our world .