“When I come to India, it is really exciting to see, especially those Mozilla volunteers, that aspiration and see unlock those things to people, and also they want to teach that to the other people across India,” Surman said, adding that India is playing a key role in the recently launched global digital literacy programme of Mozilla.

Mozilla, he said, decided a few years ago that it is not just important to create open source product, that empower people to use the web, but also that everybody in the world understand what they can do on the web.

“Not just to be a consumer, but also to be a creator of the web,” Surman said.

Early July, Mozilla launched a two-month global campaign of events known as “Maker Parties” aimed at promoting web literacy to all people.

This includes around 2,000 events in 350 cities worldwide in the coming two months and many of them are taking place in India, which Mozilla describes as a global Internet pioneer.

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