Tim Berners Lee (often heralded as one of the founders of the internet) today announced the establishment of the World Wide Web foundation. In a speech to members of the Knight Foundation, TBL outlined the objectives of the new organisation

• 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.

TBL is already a director of the W3 consortium who efforts have concentrated on unified technology standards (such as XML and HTML) to promote the freedom of the web. The new foundation will aim to address the social impact of the web along with finding ways that to distinguish between reliable and non reliable sources of information.

More information is available at www.webfoundation.org.

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