Archive for tim berners-lee
Tim Berners-Lee on net neutrality: it’s needed for free markets, democracy and science
Only one person can start an article like this, The world wide web went live, on my physical desktop in Geneva, Switzerland, in December 1990. That’s Tim Berners-Lee, and after that succinct explanation of why he knows a thing or two about the web he goes on in a piece for Scientific American to to talk [...]
Mandate research identifies Conservative plans for radical new members of the House of Lords
Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: Research conducted by Mandate Communications’ public affairs unit – Political Mandate – has revealed ambitious Conservative Party plans to introduce a raft of new Tory Peers to the House of Lords in 2010. Political Mandate spoke with over 50 senior Conservative advisers, MPs and political commentators at this year’s Conservative [...]
Tim Berners-Lee: an appointment likely to have a wide impact
It’s easy to be cynical about big name external appointments to government. After all, they’re an easy media hit to add a touch of glamour but often come to grief with the person involved achieving little. However, the news that the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is to become a government advisor [...]
