We envision a world where all people can share, create, access, and be empowered by information served through a free and open Web regardless of language, ability, location, gender or income.
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- 2008
Press Release: Business Leaders, Journalists, Scientists, Diplomats and Scholars Lend Support and Guidance The World Wide Web Foundation (Web Foundation) introduces its boards of directors, who will oversee the Web Foundation’s international operations and the start of its first programs. ...
I spent the last two days in the Mobile Web Africa conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The first quite surprising fact for me was the attendance; Around 200 people everyday interested to learn and talk about Mobile Web...
To complement my public report on our recent WF/BBC Ghana trip, I'd like to tell in more details the story of my encounter with Kudjo, the Adawso plantain farmer we interviewed as part of the Digital Revolution series...
I've hesitated posting too much on efforts required to create this new organization. But ... people have been asking, and the ultimate impact of our programs will be, in part, a product of the organization itself...
As announced in a recent posting Tim Berners-Lee and I visited Ghana a couple of weeks ago. Here's my personal account of our activities in and around Accra between Friday 18th of September and Monday 21st...
For the vast majority of those reading this, a free and open Web is taken as a given. Today, 22 September, is One Web Day- a grass roots celebration of the value that the Web brings to the lives of those who have access to it...
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web and founder of the Web Foundation, is traveling to Ghana this weekend to make new connections, and to explore opportunities for Foundation programs in the region. My WF colleague Daniel Dardailler will accompany him...
We have been busy preparing for the "launch" of the Web Foundation...
Source: www.nytimes.com
Large-scale plans for broadband access will connect parts of the continent with others at higher speeds and a lower cost.
The Web Foundation Thomas Friedman and the Land of 'No Service'
Source: www.nytimes.com
While maintaining “No Service” in the wild is essential for Africa’s ecotourism industry, the rest of the continent desperately needs more connectivity if it is to prosper.
I just went over two different articles (The land of 'no service' and With Cable, Laying a Basis for Growth in Africa) in the New York Time explaining in lenght how connectivity is triggering social and economic development in Africa...
The Web Foundation To coordinate the distribution and maintain appropriate stocks, field monitors reported on supplies and number of children fed through an SMS reporting system using a UNICEF-built mobile data collection and monitoring software, RapidSMS.
Source: mobileactive.org
Ethopia again this year has experienced crippling droughts. Faced with the possibility of famine, UNICEF Ethiopia launched a massive food distribution program to supply the high-protein food Plumpy'nut to under-nourished children using mobile phones
The Web Foundation Indian farmers using cellphones to control & monitor water pumps
Source: www.nanoganesh.com
" Nano Ganesh " a revolutionary electronic device manufactured by Ossian Agro Automation, a company working in the field of rural automation since last 14th years.
i've been trying to bring discussion about Mobile Web access in Africa on the agenda of different conferences since more than 3 years now, and it might be that eventually this will take off ! ...
The Web Foundation global online population to hit 2.2 billion by 2013 ... What are your thoughts? How can we get the other 4+ billion online?
Source: snipurl.com
Despite the global economic slowdown, worldwide use of the Internet continues unabated. By 2013, there will be 2.2 billion Internet users in the world. While every region's Internet population is projected ...
