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  • World Wide Web 25th Anniversary

    The first web server, used by Tim Berners-Lee. Photo via Wikipedia On the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, we’re pleased to share this guest post from Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web. In this post he reflects on the past, present and future of the web—and encourages the rest of us…

  • BroadBand Portals of the OECD

    Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about the challenges ahead and why an open Internet is key to its continuing success *** The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. Policy makers must examine a range…

  • My Hat’s Off too: Open Hardware Movement

    Sir Tim, creator of the World Wide Web, pointed to open data and linked data as exciting examples of the way that the Web is promoting transparency of information and looked forward to the time when the current 20 per cent of the world’s population who can access the Web grows to 80 per cent,…

  • Web Science

      See:Creating a Science of the Web The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to…understand what the Web is engineer its future ensure its social benefit …we need a new interdisciplinary field that we call Web Science. The Web Science Research Initiative brings together academics,…

  • Advancing the Web to Empower People: Challenges and Solutions

    Advancing the Web to Empower People: Challenges and Solutions from Web Foundation on Vimeo. This video summarizes the vision of the World Wide Web Foundation and provides one example of the work we are doing in Africa to empower farmers through the Web. Many thanks to our funder and partner, VU University, Amsterdam, and our…

  • Using the Architecture of Disaster Capitalism

    I have read that 80% of the world do not have access to the Web. ) The Web has been largely designed by the developed world for the developed world. But it must be much more inclusive in order to be of greater value to us all. Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation-14 September 2008…