Aug
1
What Have We Been Talking About?
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Here is a word cloud of the 50 most used words in our blog posts from January through July 2011. Not many surprises. Words like mobile, Web, people, community, services and Africa are near the top, representing not only what we are talking about, but what we are doing in the field.
Jul
31
Web Foundation founder and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, and former US Vice President and Internet champion Al Gore shared the stage at Campus Party, Mexico City, engaging over over 7,000 Campuseros.
Jul
27
Trailer for Video on Web-alliance for Regreening in Africa
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Full video coming soon to a Web browser near you!
Jun
27
Animation on Web Foundation’s Mission: What Do You Think?
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Please give us your impression of this 3 minute animation (text of script, animation on Vimeo, YouTube, .mp4 file), which aims to summarize the vision and efforts of the World Wide Web Foundation. Forward the link to your friends and family, too, so we can get a good range of opinions. To illustrate some of the challenges and solutions in reaching our vision, we refer to the work we are doing and planning to do in Africa to empower farmers through the Web – Web-alliance for Regreening in Africa (W4RA) (many, many thanks to our funder and partner, VU University, Amsterdam, and our other partners in W4RA, for their support in this particular initiative!).
Jun
22
Names Not Numbers, New York
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I’m on the train from New York City to Boston, after participating in the Names Not Numbers conference on 20 and 21 June. Editorial Intelligence, under the energetic leadership of founder Julia Hobsbawm, has organized these events in the UK for some time, and this was her first event in the US. Most of the largely fascinating sessions focused on individualism in a mass age, looking mainly from the perspectives of the media, business, politics and arts, in the US and UK.
Julia invited me to speak about the “Internet and Power” — a talk made better through the expert facilitation of Derek Wyatt, whose credits range from being a Member of Parliament to Internet visionary. To complement other sessions, I focused on the potential power of the Web in the developing world — where that power is needed most. My goal was that people would leave understanding more about the Web on which much of their creative and business work relies, and that that they must become actively engaged to ensure that the Web is free, open and empowering to everyone on the planet.
Jun
13
Last Tuesday, I spoke at The Economist ‘s Ideas Economy conference, entitled, Information: Making Sense of the Deluge. In the session “The Promise and Perils of Open Government”, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the dynamic Lt. Governor of the State of California, Gavin Newsom. While he was mayor of San Francisco, Gavin launched pioneering efforts like DataSF, which continues to provide budget, housing, map, crime, job, etc. data in machine-readable formats. Four minutes of our 20 minute discussion can be found on the fora.tv site and below.
May
11
Rajiv Shah, Jakaya Kikwete, Kofi Annan, Klaus Schwab, and other dignataries.
I recently returned from beautiful Cape Town, South Africa and the World Economic Forum on Africa 2011. Last Friday, I had the honor of being on the panel, Technology Update: The Next Leap Forward. I had a really super cadre of co-panelists: Virender Aggarwal (President, Asia, Africa and Middle East, HCL Technologies), Ory Okolloh (Policy Manager, Africa, Google), David Risher (President, Worldreader.org), Bright Simons (President, MPedigree) and moderator Peter Wonacott, (Africa Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal).
Apr
26
Empower People
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We envision a Web that empowers all people, including billions excluded today, by providing new opportunities for creativity, collaboration, teaching, learning, enterprise and a better life. To reach this goal, the Web Foundation will put the power of the Web into the hands of people around the world through effective, high-impact programs.
The Foundation works to remove barriers to creating and consuming Web content, accelerate growth of the Web, understand how the Web works, advance Web technology, and ensure a free and open Web that empowers people to bring about social and economic change.
Apr
24
This video..
.. captures static pictures from:
* Exploratory visits to Ghana, Kenya and Uganda by Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues (2008-2009)
* Web Foundation launch, Egypt (Nov 2009)
* Web for Agriculture Initiative, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali (2010-2011)
* Mobile Entrepreneurs Initiative, Ghana (2011)
Apr
21
Web Index
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The Web is young. We do not fully comprehend how this complex and expanding Web of “humanity connected by technology” really works. This is a risk to the creative, yet responsible, evolution of the Web.
The Web Index aims to improve understanding of the Web’s complex nature, and help Web scientists, companies and governments invest in ways that make the Web even more capable and valuable in the future.
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