The inventor of the Web has called foreveryone to have access to his creation for free. TimBerners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidthconnection "by default". He said the web could be instrumentalin giving people access to critical services such as healthcare. 

Currently, he said, justone-fifth of the world's population has access to the web. "What about theother 80%?" he asked the audience at the Nokia World conference in London."I would like to see people enrolled in a cheap data plan by default. Iwould like them to get it for free."Sir Tim said the rise inmobile networks around the world meant there was now an opportunity to connecteveryone. "What about these people who have a signal but are not part ofthe web, who are not part of the information society?" he said.  

"I initially assumed youshould get them water first, you should get them healthcare and then it is theluxury of getting the web," he said. "But it is not actually likethat. The web can be pretty instrumental in getting them access tohealthcare." He said that the resultinghealthcare would be different to that experienced in western countries butwould offer a step change in many regions of the world that had none."There is no Aids vaccine, so what are you going to do about it?" heasked. "Getting that message across in their own tongue on the web issomething that isn't happening now."

He said access to the webcould allow people to "create their own communities and share their owninformation" about health, agriculture and business. Not being a part ofthe information society is a really important thing." 

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