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Tim Bernes Lee announces World Wide Web Foundation |
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On September 14 Tim Berners-Lee in Washington, D.C. announced the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation and stated the following as it's goals:
to advance One Web that is free and open,
to expand the Web's capability and robustness,
and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet.
The foundation is being funded by the Knight foundation by creating a budget of $1 million for the next five years.
Most of you may know that the W3C deals with most of the techincal standardization parts of the web and according to Lee in his speech:
"The community addressed this threat by agreeing, in 1994, to work together in a standards body called the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. W3C became a successful forum for consensus, where diverse parties have developed some of the core technologies that make the Web work. These technologies— HTML, XML, Style Sheets, to name a few—have fueled billion-dollar industries and connected people like never before."
The primary reason for the creation of this new foundation is to bring together business leaders, NGO's and other related organizations to tackle global issues through the use of technology and specifically the web.
Concerete steps and strategies for accomplishing the goals of this foundation will be announced in early 2009 and the website for this organization will serve as the primary vehicle for tracking their progress.
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