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Berners-Lee Launches the Web Foundation

This week Tim Berners-Lee announced the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation, with a $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation. It has a truly important mission:

“The World Wide Web Foundation seeks 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.”

CNET also announced the launch, explaining:

“The Web Foundation will seek to foster collaboration among business leaders, technologists, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The mission is to:

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

Read the transcript of Tim Berners-Lee’s speech launching the project.

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