--- title: Internet for Everyone: Here's How It Can Be Done description: More than 5 billion people around the world do not have access to the Internet. Kosta Grammatis has a novel idea about how to change that. canonical: https://time.com/130477/internet-human-right/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-28T21:25:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:02:21.155Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Is it Possible to Wire the World? 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He wanted to figure out how to circumvent political and physical obstacles and bring digital media to anywhere it was otherwise unavailable. He and some colleagues set out to [buy a satellite from a bankrupt company](http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2045428,00.html) and use it to beam connectivity to places like Tunisia. That plan turned out to be harder to realize than to it was to imagine. But Grammatis, a web evangelist, is a true believer in the good things that can happen in a more interconnected world. He recalibrated his thinking to rely less on expensive orbital technology and more on working with established communications and financial institutions. But the idea remains big. His new startup, Oluvus — i.e., “all of us” — remains focused on wiring the entire planet and bringing free Internet to the[ five billion people who do not have access](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%5FInternet%5Fusage). In the video above, Grammatis tells the story of how he got where he is now and why _this_ time, the odds of success look good. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/130477/internet-human-right/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/130477/internet-human-right/"},"headline":"The Internet As a Human Right","datePublished":"2014-05-28T21:25:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:21.155Z","description":"An audacious idea whose time has come","url":"https://time.com/130477/internet-human-right/","keywords":["Internet","Tech","Bill Gates","Human Rights","Telecommunications","Kenya","refugee","ideas","satellite"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1f5afd944959d95/698691181eebf72f493710fd/intern_everywhere1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1f5afd944959d95/698691181eebf72f493710fd/intern_everywhere1280.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Intern_everywhere1280","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/internet/","name":"Internet"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/130477/internet-human-right/","name":"The Internet As a Human Right"}}]}] ```