Mozilla and other entities large and small have helped build an open, participatory network - the World Wide Web – an amazing accomplishment perhaps unprecedented in history.

However, this marvelous, open, self-governing resource - taken for granted by so many - may not stand the test of time.

In this short but focused presentation, Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, lays out a challenge to every web user: technology alone may not be enough to preserve the web as we’ve built it.

The web is healthy, he notes, but looking ahead, issues involving privacy, security, data portability, and the growing trend away from traditional computers as endpoint nodes, could combine to form an environment that threatens and stifles the openness so prized today.

Mozilla, as well as the broader open-source community, is in a superb position to reach newer web constituents and enroll them in the effort to preserve the Open Web.  Open source alone may not be enough; however millions of Netizens taking simple, concrete actions to maintain, foster, and steward the open posture of the web would be virtually impossible to ignore.

Join with us, he says, to leverage the collaboration that defines the web today to ensure the prospects of an open web tomorrow and beyond.