Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, is helping start a new foundation with the aim of supporting the Web as a tool that’s open and accessible to everyone.

precisely what the World Wide Web Foundation is going to do hasn’t been decided yet, but Berners-Lee pointed to some possible areas of focus, like making the Web better suited to citizens in emerging countries.

“I understand that 80 percent of the planet don’t use the Web, but

quite a large number … may have signal from a cell tower,” Berners-Lee said.

Those society might use a cell phone to get access to the Web, but the problems don’t end there. “It might not work for the way they want to work. They may be illiterate, for example,” Berners-Lee said in an interview.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation said it will give the WWW Foundation $5 million in […]

Orginal post by dhiram