World Wide Web Foundation

The World Wide Web Foundation was founded in 2009 by web inventors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Lee to advance the open web as a public good and a fundamental right. We are an independent international organization dedicated to creating a world where everyone can access the web effectively and affordably, improving their lives and protecting their rights.

The Foundations mission is to work towards a safe and empowering web for everyone. It does so through original research, advocacy and public action to shape the policies and products needed to achieve the web people want.

The World Wide Web Foundations work includes working for digital equality and addressing a variety of issues on the web, such as combating deceptive designs on the African continent and increasing accountability for gender-based violence on the web. They also publish relevant research and publications, such as the results and recommendations of the workshop on the design of online gender-based violence policies, and an open letter on the 35th anniversary of the birth of the Internet.

In the process of Internet development, some problems such as online violence, data property rights and speech censorship have emerged. For example, some social media platforms will censor user speech, and even deactivate or ban user accounts for life; cloud service providers may stop providing services for certain platforms, which has caused controversy about data property rights. The goal of the World Wide Web Foundation is to work hard to solve these problems, let the Internet return to the original intention of "freedom and equality", promote the Internet to develop in a more decentralized and equal direction, return data to the owner, and build the next generation of the World Wide Web.