English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, delivers a speech at CERN in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland on March 12, 2019, marking 30 years of World Wide Web.
Credited with laying the groundwork for the web –– the universe of multimedia webpages accessible via the –– in 1989, the computer scientist has since last year been developing the so-called Contract for the Web. He called on governments to "strengthen laws and regulations" and companies "to ensure pursuit of profit is not at the expense of human rights and democracy".
Meanwhile, the governments of France, Germany and Ghana are on board, as are thousands of individuals.
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