The organizers of the global event OneWebDay took the concept of Earth Day and thought it was time to acknowledge the Internet in a similar fashion. “The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value, focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet,” states their website. The first OneWebDay was in 2006.

The key value that is the focus for 2008′s event is “online participation in democracy,” in acknowledgement of the Internet’s substantive impact on this year’s U.S. presidential election. The big day is this Monday, September 22.

Go to their simple yet cool website to learn about the scheduled events around the world and how you and your library can participate. I would suggest contributing to the e-Democracy Time Capsule (hurry, only a few days left to add content!).

You can also check out Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s press conference from the WWW2008 conference held in Beijing, plus his “global message” (kinda like Santa Claus?) videocast from 2007.