A year of transformation: the web and the world
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Anniversary of the webToday we mark a yearly celebration, that of the invention of the Web in March 1989 by our Director Sir Tim Berners-Lee. A year into the pandemic, relying on the webBut also we mark a year into the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and global lockdowns.The UN noted that Covid-19 has been a “human, economic and social crisis“. We have seen incredible loss of life, disruption, worry and an increase in income inequality, the digital divide, and a disproportionate impact on working women.In June 2020, Tim Berners-Lee wrote in the Guardian about the Covid-19 crisis:“… the web has been the critical unifying force, [that enables] work, school, social activity and mutual support. Always intended as a platform for creativity and collaboration at a distance, it is great to see it also being used more than ever for compassion at a distance too”We have all been tremendously reliant on the web during this year of crisis. According to the World Bank: “around the world, the p…

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