Founder of The World Wide Web Foundation & “Father of the World Wide Web” Sir Tim Berners-Lee has announced a campaign called a ‘Magna Carta For The Web’. The move aims to garner support around these central standards & help turn them into a contract to be published in May 2019, when, many say, half the world’s population will be Online.
Sir Berners-Lee called for businesses, individuals & governments to support the ‘Contract for the Web’ at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal on Monday. The initiative has already secured backing from over 50 organisations, including the French Government.
Speaking from the Web Summit, Berners-Lee said:
The web is at a crucial point. More than half the world’s population remains offline, and the rate of new people getting connected is slowing. Those of us who are online are seeing our rights and freedoms threatened. We need a new Contract for the Web, with clear and tough responsibilities for those who have the power to make it better. I hope more people will join us to build the web we want.
Sir Berners-Lee told the audience: We need a new Contract for the Web, with clear and tough responsibilities for those who have the power to make it better. I hope more people will join us to build the web we want.
Having invented the Web in 1989 while working at CERN & subsequently working to ensure it was made freely available to all, Sir Berners-Lee is now dedicated to protecting the Web’s future. He is a Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation created in 2009.
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