#webfoundation

28 years after @timberners_lee invented the web, these are the challenges he sees for its future: https://t.co/GZvisd6BYP #HappyBirthdayWWW

This paper by the World Wide Web Foundation argues that intermediary organisations play a crucial role in helping open data projects get results- and that they need to be better funded as a result.

Read the paper here

Data intermediaries are connecting data providers (for example, governments) with those who can benefit by using data or data-driven products, helping to articulate demand for data, creating and repackaging data, and creating novel applications.

Of the 32 intermediaries studied, 72% can be described as not-for profit and, as a consequence, rely on donor funding to sustain their operations.