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Web Inventor Tim Berners Lee Launches New Foundation

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has launched the ‘World Wide Web Foundation’ to study how the web works and to help expand Internet access to those currently going without.

With $5 million in initial funding from the Knight Foundation, the World Wide Web Foundation will focus on three key areas:

  1. Web science and research;
  2. Web technology and practice; and
  3. Web for Society

Source: Marshall Kirkpatrick, “Tim Berners Lee Launches World Wide Web Foundation - Will it Be Effective?” ReadWriteWeb, September 15, 2008

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