Sponge Project Blog ~ Web design in Tewkesbury

14th of September saw the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation. Brainchild of Tim Berners-Lee, grandfather to the internet as we know it, the foundation aims to

transform community and to ensure that the Web remains an instrument of innovation

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…funding research, technology development, and outreach, the Web Foundation strives to enable all people to share knowledge, access services, conduct commerce, participate in good governance, and communicate in creative ways.

Basically the web has evolved in such a way so as to exclude some people form benefiting from it’s use and also in a way that most people wouldn’t or couldn’t have predicted. The foundation aims to re-dress this imbalance moving forward and to better understand and harness the web for the greater good. The one page concept paper is worth a reader and also check out Tim’s launch speech.