World Wide Web Foundation
Encyclopedia
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. One of its board members is former British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
.
The mission of the organization is "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 employs three programs, Web Science and Research, Web Technology and Practice and Web for Society, to reach the objectives of the organization.
The organization is not related to the Open Web Foundation
.
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." The New Scientist
criticized the formation of an organization to tell others what is true or not.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
. The formation of the organization was announced on September 14, 2008 by Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
at the Newseum
Newseum
The Newseum is an interactive museum of news and journalism located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. The seven-level, museum features 15 theaters and 14 galleries. The Newseum's Berlin Wall Gallery includes the largest display of sections of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
. The organization launched on November 15, 2009. One of its board members is former British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007...
.
The mission of the organization is "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 employs three programs, Web Science and Research, Web Technology and Practice and Web for Society, to reach the objectives of the organization.
The organization is not related to the Open Web Foundation
Open Web Foundation
The Open Web Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and protection of specifications for emerging web technologies. The foundation follows an open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation...
.
Reception
New Scientist
New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine, which since 1996 has also run a website, covering recent developments in science and technology for a general audience. Founded in 1956, it is published by Reed Business Information Ltd, a subsidiary of...
criticized the formation of an organization to tell others what is true or not.