The days following the earthquake in Haiti have shown just how vital — and often too scarce — reliable information is.  Aid organizations and government agencies need to know what’s happening on the ground so they can effectively allocate their resources.  These organizations and agencies must be able to share information in order to effectively coordinate…

Tim Berners-Lee and Aleks Krotoski (BBC) talk with Ghanaians at a local community computer center about how and why they use the Web [see Daniel's post about the trip: WF's first trip to Ghana and videos with a local farmer].
The videos are clips from raw footage taken for BBC’s Digital Revolution (working title) project: an…

Before getting involved with the Web Foundation I spent nearly a year traveling through Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. During that time I had the chance to meet a lot of incredible people who faced tremendous hardships. What struck me most at the time was the way in which they refused to let their…