Many organizations focus on increasing fixed and mobile Internet connectivity. What makes the Internet useful to people is the World Wide Web, which provides – to all who are able to use it – an easy way to create, link and read information anywhere in the world. And there are a number of challenges associated with Web technology and usage that up until now have not been addressed with sufficient effort and coordination.

The Programs of the Web Foundation are motivated by three challenges for the Web:

• the Content Gap
• the Technology Gap
• the Research Gap

… that inhibit billions of people from using the Web, and impede this technology from reaching its full potential as a medium of empowerment for all people. The Web Foundation works to fill these three gaps through three integrated programs (see below):