World Wide Web Foundation
| Founded | Early 2009 |
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| Founder | Tim Berners-Lee |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States, Geneva, Switzerland and Cape Town, South Africa |
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Key people
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Tim Berners-Lee (founder) Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss (Board Chair) 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]
It publishes the Web Index[5] with statistics for 86 selected countries.
The organization is not related to the Open Web Foundation.[6]
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."[7] The New Scientist criticized the formation of an organization to tell others what is true or not.[8]
See also
References
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- ↑ The Web Index
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