Free Information Infrastructure

A term created by the model of the official US term National Information Infrastructure, introduced in early nineties by a US Patent Office paper [1]. Also global information infrastructure and information highway was used as a governmental term for the Net.

Free Information Infrastructure rather focuses on freedom and is widely used by open standards lobby groups in Europe.

Free Information Infrastructure focuses on the Internet. The Internet and the media that is used to access the net shall be free.

A Free Information Infrastructure comprises

• No software patents, no patents for eCommerce and data processing.
• Free access, free contribution
• open standards
• little control by state
• Free Speech
• sometimes: Free Software

Some groups such as Eurolinux refered to it.

FFII = Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure http://www.ffii.org