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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a man widely considered to be the founder of the modern web, is embarking on a 4-day trip to Kenya. While there, he will collaborate with leaders about increasing Internet usage and also launch activities for the new World Wide Web Foundation.

The East African country has been host to a hotbed of Internet industry activity lately. The country has just been connected to a new cross-ocean fiber optic cable, significantly increasing the bandwidth available to the region. In 2010, it will host an ICANN meeting.

Currently, 8.6% of the population— 3.3 million Kenyans– has Internet access. This is a huge jump from the year 2000, when only 200,000 people, or 0.7% of the population, could access the web.

Source | Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

]]> World Web Foundation launches https://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/679/world-web-foundation-promised/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:51:55 +0000 http://www.internetblog.org.uk/post/679/world-web-foundation-promised/ world web foundation logoThe World Web Foundation, a venture of web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, officially launched today. The goal of the organization is to create programs intded increase Internet usage worldwide.

Steve Bratt, CEO of the WWF, stated:

The whole mission of the Web Foundation is to advance the Web as a medium for empowerment for people and helping them to make positive changes in their communities and lives. My interest is that we need to take a step closer to people and institute new programs that work directly with people to address current barriers to using the Web.

The foundation is ready to begin two new campaigns. One, the Web Alliance for Re-greening in Africa (W4RA), will help African farmers obtain agricultural data through the web. The other, the Brazil-based Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI), is designed to promote Internet literacy.

World Web is also working on a new standard called VoiceXML that will make accessing the Internet from cell phones much easier. According to Bratt, it allows a website to act like a call center and work in response to voice commands. While web browsers are available on smartphones all over North America and Europe, this technology is widely unavailable in the developing world.

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