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This coming September 22nd, 2008 is One Web Day, an annual celebration and awareness day for the Internet.

Every year Internet users around the world are asked to join together, both online and off, to learn, teach, discuss, debate, celebrate, promote and protect a free and open internet. This is a day in which we communicate not only on the Internet, but about the Internet. It’s a day to celebrate the marvelous accomplishments we’ve made so far and brainstorm about the amazing possibilities yet to come. And why not have fun doing it? One Web Day observances can take many forms: from discussion groups, workshops and presentations, to parties, concerts and any other “woohoo, the internet rocks!”-style celebration one could think of!

This year’s OneWebDay celebration has a particularly salient theme - Participatory Democracy! A free and open internet, much like healthy democracy, is greater than the sum of its parts. Never before has mass participation been empowered in that way in which it is now possible - thanks largely to the free and open nature of the internet coupled with the free and open nature of Democracy!

And hey, what better to do than have a day of interconnected, simulcast parties to celebrate it?!

Seriously now ~ Gateway applauds this year’s OneWebDay theme and looks forwarding to helping make it a huge success!