Why did the Web Foundation emerge from W3C and WST and why now?
The work of W3C and WST has been vital towards realizing the vision of the Web as humanity connected. However, despite the tremendous growth of the Web in the past twenty years, it became apparent that there was no organization positioned to address the full scope of challenges preventing all people from leveraging the Web as a tool for empowerment. For this reason, Tim Berners-Lee together with Steve Bratt and others – many of which were from W3C and WST – set out to create the World Wide Web Foundation.
