The Web Foundation starts work on the Web-alliance for Regreening in Africa (W4RA) during the first week of February, with Steve Bratt and Stephane Boyera doing field investigations and planning with our partners in Burkina Faso.
Leveraging the Web, mobile phones, community radio and local expertise, W4RA will expand the collection and sharing of knowledge on…
Regreening in Africa
Visits in Africa
The Web Foundation’s visits to Africa focus on learning how the information technologies are being used, to understand the barriers and opportunities for Web usage, and to connect with people, projects and organizations active in the region.
Tim Berners-Lee and Daniel Dardailler of the Web Foundation visited Ghana in September 2009. Tim, Daniel, Stephane Boyera and…
Empowering Youth
Only a quarter of the world today is able to use the Web, and benefit from its power. Among the other three quarters of the population, most live on less than few dollars a day, are fighting for their basic needs, and have poor access to life-critical services.
The Web Foundation and Center for Digital Inclusion…
One Web
The Web is young. We do not fully comprehend how this complex and expanding Web of “humanity connected by technology” really works. But what we do know, is that the Web works best when the underlying technologies are globally agreed, free and open.
The Web Foundation, working with the Web Science Trust and the World Wide…
Advance the Web. Empower People.
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…
Web Science
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.
Working with the Web Science Trust (WST), the Web Foundation aims to improve understanding of the Web’s complex nature, and to…