Mr. Adrian Lovett:

About 0.5% of the world might say the Internet Governance Forum is a good place, while the rest of us wonder what it is. Tim Berners-Lee's idea on which we have been working for the last year or so has three phases. The first was to land the set of top line principles that I mentioned. They consist of nine principles, with three for governments, three for companies and three for citizens. On the question of us and whose army, approximately 350 organisations signed up in support of the principles and committed to engaging with the process of turning them into concrete actions. The 350 organisations include most or all of the major platforms, a number of governments, including the German Government and the French Government, and some terrific civil society organisations in the global south and elsewhere. That was only the first step and if we had stopped there, it would have been useless.

The second step is the one at which we will land in two or three weeks' time in Berlin. Approximately 80 experts from different sectors and backgrounds have deliberated over the last three months or so to announce 76 clauses related to the nine principles, covering the whole range of what we saw as challenges in ensuring the web worked for everyone.

The third stage is to ensure all those who have signed up to these commitments - we hope as many as possible of the 350 organisations involved in the first stage will do so - will be held accountable. The Web Foundation will take it on itself to ensure there will be a robust monitoring mechanism that will track progress against the commitments made. Part of the conditions in endorsing the contract for the web in Berlin by companies, governments and civil society groups will be publishing an annual accountability report of their own addressing the elements of the contract.

The Deputy made a good point about the web versus the wider Internet, including the big platforms. We absolutely recognise this. Tim Berners-Lee has always had a strong sense that while Facebook and Google are not the web, there is an opportunity which perhaps is unrealised for those players and others to help to strengthen and build the web and, within the wider Internet, to reinforce the values of the web, including transparency and openness, to have a permissionless space and enable people to have the opportunity to be creators, as well as consumers. While we are, first and foremost, concerned about the worldwide web that Tim Berners-Lee invented, we are also determined to see how much of the spirit, value and ethics behind it can be experienced.