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Tim Berners-Lee initiates the World Wide Web Foundation

Friday, 26 September 2008 18:00 Cornelio
Tim Berners-Lee initiates the World Wide Web Foundation

Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged "Father of the Internet", announces the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation. The WWF aims to further the following goals:

  • * foster a more free and open "One Web"
  • * improve the Web's capability and robustness
  • * extend the Web's benefits to all peoples of the world

Tim Berners-Lee outlined his vision in a speech during the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Washington, D.C. (USA). Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation's president and CEO, will provide a $5 million as seed grant to jumpstart the World Wide Web Foundation.

 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 April 2009 07:29 )

 

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