Latest Tim Berners-Lee articles

Government launches Open Data Institute (updated)

Tory Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude
Huge opportunity to drive innovation via open data – but does the government truly understand the distinctions between 'open' and private?
22 May 2012

Leave neutrality to the Swiss


05 Apr 2011

Berners-Lee launches government web site

3,000 data sets to be made available today on data.gov.uk, and more than 2,400 developers have registered
21 Jan 2010

Public sector IT: review of the year

Public sector correspondent Tom Young gives his view on the last 12 months
18 Dec 2009

Free state data initiative goes local

Local authorities to put health, education, crime and public spending data online
08 Dec 2009

Sorry about the "//", says Tim Berners-Lee

Web inventor wishes he had never bothered with the double-slash convention for URLs
13 Oct 2009

Worldwide web turns 20

In March 1989, Cern staffer Tim Berners-Lee proposed a revolutionary new system for sharing information, and unwittingly changed the world forever. Martin Courtney looks back
12 Mar 2009