Berners-Lee Announces Creation of World Wide Web Foundation

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Berners-Lee Announces Creation of World Wide Web Foundation

By CircleID Reporter
September 15, 2008, 3:58 pm PDT Views: 6,917 Comments: 1

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, on Sunday announced the launch of World Wide Web Foundation to fulfill a vision of the Web as humanity connected by technology. “The Web is a tremendous platform for innovation, but we face a number of challenges to making it more useful, in particular to people in underserved communities,” said Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and co-Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI). “Through this new initiative, we hope to develop an international ecosystem that will help shape the future Web. A more inclusive Web will benefit us all.”

Goals of the program include:

To study and understand how the web works in order to anticipate and ensure its future.
To research issues (such as privacy and security) that impact the billions of people that use the Web.
To understand how to make the Web stable and secure, and to mitigate threats and weaknesses.
To spearhead thought leadership in Web research and to educate future Web Scientists.

World Wide Web Foundation is funded initially by a $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation’s president and CEO said: “The free flow of information is of paramount importance to communities in a democracy and maintaining the World Wide Web free is critical for the future of that free flow.”

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Application for .web? Dirk Krischenowski – Sep 15, 2008 5:32 PM

Will the new foundation go for a .web TLD?

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