A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to join the Web Science movement in Athens, Greece, and celebrate the first “f2f” of this new research group or community, a decentralized group really, with several fields of interest (from graph theory to online democratic practices), with a focus for the three days of…
Read MoreToward an Open ICT Standard Initiative
The issues technologists and policy makers face today with Open ICT Standardization (Information and Communications Technologies) are similar to the issues W3C went through about 12 years ago when we started managing large initiatives cutting across several fields of expertise, like the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative for people with disabilities): missing definitions and tools which…
Read More20th Anniversary of the Proposal for the Web
On 13 March 2009 CERN marks the 20th anniversary of a document by Tim Berners-Lee — entitled, “Information Management : a Proposal” — describing what would become the World World Wide Web. A schedule for the celebration includes a keynote by Tim. I hope you have a chance to follow some of this…
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