Editing Tim Berners-Lee (section)

===Policy work===
[[File:timbernerslee.jpg|thumb|right|Tim Berners-Lee at the [[Home Office]], London, on 11 March 2010]]
By 2010, he created [[data.gov.uk]] alongside [[Nigel Shadbolt]]. Commenting on the [[Ordnance Survey]] data in April 2010, Berners-Lee said: "The changes signal a wider cultural change in government based on an assumption that information should be in the public domain unless there is a good reason not to—not the other way around." He went on to say: "Greater openness, accountability and transparency in Government will give people greater choice and make it easier for individuals to get more directly involved in issues that matter to them."<ref>{{cite news| title = Ordnance Survey offers free data access |work=BBC News |date= 1 April 2010| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8597779.stm| access-date=3 April 2009 }}</ref>
[[File:Berners-Lee announcing W3F.jpg|thumb|right|Berners-Lee speaking at the launch of the [[World Wide Web Foundation]]]]
In November 2009, Berners-Lee launched the [[World Wide Web Foundation]] (WWWF).<ref>[http://www.webfoundation.org/about/faq/ FAQ—World Wide Web Foundation]. Retrieved 18 January 2011.</ref>

Berners-Lee is one of the pioneer voices in favour of [[net neutrality]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7613201.stm|title=Web creator rejects net tracking|publisher=BBC |date= 15 September 2008|access-date=15 September 2008|quote=Warning sounded on web's future.|first=Pallab|last=Ghosh}}</ref> and has expressed the view that [[ISP]]s should supply "connectivity with no strings attached", and should neither control nor monitor the browsing activities of customers without their expressed consent.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7299875.stm|title=Web creator rejects net tracking|publisher=BBC |date= March 2008|access-date=25 May 2008|quote=Sir Tim rejects net tracking like Phorm.|first=Rory|last=Cellan-Jones}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1581938/Web-inventor%27s-warning-on-spy-software.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522025521/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1581938/Web-inventor%27s-warning-on-spy-software.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 May 2008|title=Web inventor's warning on spy software|work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date= March 2008|access-date=25 May 2008|quote=Sir Tim rejects net tracking like Phorm.
| first=Stephen|last=Adams}}</ref> He advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right: "Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights."<ref>{{cite web|last=Berners |first=Tim |url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web |title=Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality|date= December 2010 |work=Scientific American |access-date=21 December 2011}}</ref> Berners-Lee participated in an open letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He and 20 other Internet pioneers urged the FCC to cancel a vote on 14 December 2017 to uphold net neutrality. The letter was addressed to Senator [[Roger Wicker]], Senator [[Brian Schatz]], Representative [[Marsha Blackburn]] and Representative Michael F. Doyle.<ref>[https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/11/vint-cerf-tim-berners-lee-and-19-other-technologists-pen-letter-asking-fcc-to-save-net-neutrality/ "Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, and 19 other technologists pen letter asking FCC to save net neutrality"]. VB News. Retrieved 14 December 2017</ref>

Berners-Lee was honoured as the "Inventor of the World Wide Web" during the [[2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony]], in which he appeared working with a vintage [[NeXT Computer]].<ref name="Friar" /> He tweeted "This is for everyone"<ref name="OlympicsTweet">{{cite web|author=Berners-Lee, Tim|title=This is for everyone| url=https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/228960085672599552 | publisher=Twitter|date=27 July 2012|access-date=28 July 2012}}</ref> which appeared in LED lights attached to the chairs of the audience.<ref name="Friar">{{cite news |title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee stars in Olympics opening ceremony |first=Karen |last=Friar |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-stars-in-olympics-opening-ceremony/ |newspaper=ZDNet |date=28 July 2012 |access-date=28 July 2012}}</ref>
[[File:This is for Everyone.jpg|thumb|right|Berners-Lee's tweet, "This is for everyone",<ref name="OlympicsTweet" /> at the [[2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony#Frankie and June say...thanks Tim (21:52–22:09)|2012 Summer Olympic Games]] in London]]
Berners-Lee joined the board of advisors of start-up [[State (website)|State.com]], based in London.<ref name="state">{{cite web
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}}</ref> As of May 2012, he is president of the [[Open Data Institute]],<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/government-computing-network/2012/may/23/open-data-institute-plans-published-cabinet-office?newsfeed=true |work=[[The Guardian]] | first=Government | last=Computing | title=Government commits £10m to Open Data Institute | date=23 May 2012}}</ref> which he co-founded with [[Nigel Shadbolt]] in 2012.

The [[Alliance for Affordable Internet]] (A4AI) was launched in October 2013, and Berners-Lee is leading the coalition of public and private organisations that includes [[Google]], [[Facebook]], [[Intel]] and [[Microsoft]]. The A4AI seeks to make Internet access more affordable so that access is broadened in the developing world, where only 31% of people are online. Berners-Lee will work with those aiming to decrease Internet access prices so that they fall below the [[Broadband Commission for Digital Development|UN Broadband Commission]]'s worldwide target of 5% of monthly income.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Google lead coalition for cheaper internet|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/07/google-berners-lee-alliance-broadband-africa?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2&et_cid=51918&et_rid=7107573&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2ftechnology%2f2013%2foct%2f07%2fgoogle-berners-lee-alliance-broadband-africa|access-date=8 October 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 October 2013|first=Samuel |last=Gibbs}}</ref>

Berners-Lee holds the founders chair in Computer Science at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], where he heads the Decentralized Information Group and is leading [[Solid (web decentralization project)|Solid]], a joint project with the [[Qatar Computing Research Institute]] that aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.<ref>Weinberger, David, [http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/ways-to-decentralize-the-web/ "How the father of the World Wide Web plans to reclaim it from Facebook and Google"]. ''Digital Trends'', 10 August 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.</ref> In October 2016, he joined the [[Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford|Department of Computer Science]] at [[Oxford University]] as a professorial research fellow<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-10-27-sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-oxfords-department-computer-science# |title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science |publisher=[[University of Oxford]] | location=UK | date=27 October 2016 }}</ref> and as a [[Fellow (college)|fellow]] of [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church]], one of the Oxford colleges.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/research-and-academia/TBLpress-release | title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee joins Oxford's Department of Computer Science and Christ Church | date=27 October 2016 | publisher=[[Christ Church, Oxford]] | location=UK | access-date=14 November 2016 | archive-date=25 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625052303/https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/research-and-academia/TBLpress-release | url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:At the Science Museum for the Web@30 event, March 2019 23.jpg|thumb|Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum for the Web@30 event, March 2019]]
From the mid-2010s, Berners-Lee initially remained neutral on the emerging [[Encrypted Media Extensions]] (EME) proposal with its controversial [[digital rights management]] (DRM) implications.<ref name="TheReg-20170306">{{cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/06/berners_lee_web_drm_w3c/|title=Sir Tim Berners-Lee refuses to be King Canute, approves DRM as Web standard|website=The Register|publisher=Situation Publishing|date=6 March 2017|first=Kieren|last=McCarthy|access-date=30 May 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005001244/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/06/berners_lee_web_drm_w3c/|archive-date=5 October 2018}}</ref> In March 2017 he felt he had to take a position which was to support the EME proposal.<ref name="TheReg-20170306"/>  He reasoned EME's virtues whilst noting DRM was inevitable.<ref name="TheReg-20170306"/> As W3C director, he went on to approve the finalised specification in July 2017.<ref name="SDtimes20190707">{{cite magazine|title=DRM concerns arise as W3C's Tim Berners-Lee approves the EME specification |url=https://sdtimes.com/digital-restrictions-management/drm-concerns-arise-as-w3cs-tim-berners-lee-approves-the-eme-specification/ |magazine=SD Times |access-date=12 March 2019|date=7 July 2017|first=Christina|last=Cardoza|publisher=BZ Media LLC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530183218/https://sdtimes.com/digital-restrictions-management/drm-concerns-arise-as-w3cs-tim-berners-lee-approves-the-eme-specification/|archive-date=30 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="TheReg-20170306"/> His stance was opposed by some including [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] (EFF), the anti-DRM campaign [[Defective by Design]] and the [[Free Software Foundation]].<ref name="SDtimes20190707"/> Varied concerns raised included being not supportive of the Internet's open philosophy against commercial interests and risks of users being forced to use a particular [[web browser]] to view specific DRM content.<ref name="TheReg-20170306"/> The EFF raised a formal appeal which did not succeed and the EME specification became a formal W3C recommendation in September 2017.<ref name="TheReg-20170918">{{cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/18/w3c_approves_eme/|title=DRM now a formal Web recommendation after protest vote fails|website=The Register|publisher=Situation Publishing|date=18 September 2017|first=Kieren|last=McCarthy|access-date=30 May 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227064708/https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/18/w3c_approves_eme/|archive-date=27 February 2019}}</ref>

On 30 September 2018, Berners-Lee announced his new [[Open-source model|open-source]] startup [[Solid (web decentralization project)|Inrupt]] to fuel a commercial ecosystem around the [[Solid (web decentralization project)|Solid]] project, which aims to give users more control over their personal data and lets them choose where the data goes, who's allowed to see certain elements and which apps are allowed to see that data.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/30/tim-berners-lee-solid-data-control/|title=Tim Berners-Lee project gives you more control over web data|work=Engadget|access-date=30 September 2018|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web|title=Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web=Fast Company|access-date=29 September 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>

In November 2019, at the [[Internet Governance Forum]] in Berlin, Berners-Lee and the WWWF launched ''[[Contract for the Web]]'', a campaign initiative to persuade governments, companies and citizens to commit to nine principles to stop "misuse", with the warning that "if we don't act now{{snd}}and act together{{snd}}to prevent the web being misused by those who want to exploit, divide and undermine, we are at risk of squandering [its potential for good]".<ref name="CNA20191125">{{Cite news|last=CNA Staff|date=25 November 2019|title=Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee launches plan to stop Internet abuse|url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-launches-plan-stop-internet-abuse-12123526|access-date=25 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191125193812/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/web-inventor-tim-berners-lee-launches-plan-stop-internet-abuse-12123526|archive-date=25 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>