World Wide Web Foundation
| Founded | Early 2009 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Tim Berners-Lee |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States, Geneva, Switzerland and Cape Town, South Africa |
Key people |
Tim Berners-Lee (founder) Anne Jellema (CEO) |
| Website |
www |
The World Wide Web Foundation (also: Web Foundation) is an organization dedicated to the improvement and availability of the World Wide Web. The formation of the organization was announced on September 14, 2008 by Tim Berners-Lee at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.. The organization launched on November 15, 2009.[1] One of its former board members is former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.[2]
The mission of the organization is "to establish the open Web as a global public good and a basic right, ensuring that everyone can access and use it freely".[3] The foundation works in two areas, A free and open Web and Open Democracy, to reach the objectives of the organization.[4]
The organization is not related to the Open Web Foundation.[5]
Reception
When announcing the foundation, Berners-Lee discussed a system to label websites for their trustworthiness. According to the BBC he said "there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources."[6] The New Scientist criticized the formation of an organization to tell others what is true or not.[7]
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References
- ↑ "World Wide Web Foundation Launches Global Operations". World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved 2009-11-16.
- ↑ Gordon's Future: Ex-PM Reveals His Big Plans, Sky News, 2 September 2010
- ↑ "About the Web Foundation". World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
- ↑ "World Wide Web Foundation Overview". World Wide Web Foundation. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
- ↑ "Media Resources". World Wide Web Foundation.
- ↑ "Warning sounded on web's future". BBC News. 2008-09-15.
- ↑ "New Scientist Technology Blog: How to measure a website's IQ?". New Scientist.
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