Web Directions

the World Wide Web Foundation

• In: Blog
• By:John
• September 16, 2008
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Sir Tim Berners-​​Lee has announced a new orga­ni­za­tion, the World Wide Web Foundation, whose goals are

• to advance One Web that is free and open
• to expand the Web’s capa­bil­ity and robustness
• to extend the Web’s ben­e­fits to all peo­ple on the planet

Clearly the foun­da­tion is meant to com­ple­ment the tech­ni­cal role of the W3C, although the sec­ond goal posi­tions the Foundation as an umbrella orga­ni­za­tion to the now more than decade old W3C.

With the Foundation only launched two days ago, it is clearly very early days. But an orgaiza­tion to act as a cus­to­dian for the vision (and real­ity) that Sir Tim Berners-​​Lee founded the web to be, helmed by the man him­self, is a very wel­come initiative.

2 responses to “the World Wide Web Foundation”:

1. • By:Mark pesce
   • September 17th, 2008
   

   Is there any­one local who can do a short pitch about the WWWF at WDS08? Five min­utes should be enough — and they’d cer­tainly be address­ing the right crowd…

2. • By:john Allsopp
   • September 17th, 2008
   

   Hi Mark,

   an excel­lent sug­ges­tion. I’ll see whether Mike Smith is in a posi­tion to say any­thing about it.

   john

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