Building for a User-Centered Internet

The Internet is increasingly centralised around a few big platforms, leading to numerous problems ignoring or harming users' benefits. In recent years, more attention is paid on decentralised architectures with more user focus. In this talk, I will briefly revisit the different lines of thinking, and focus on one promising approach, Solid (Social Linked Data), proposed by Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, to re-decentralised the Web. I will cover its key principles, what it offers right now, and (our team's) explorations to expand its boarder. The talk will close with visions upon Solid and corresponding open questions to incentivise future evolution.