The glory days of youth are known as a time for experimentation, making mistakes and figuring out what you want to be when you grow up.
One particular darling of our era, a bright young thing famously known as the World Wide Web, has spent 29 years doing just that. Now it's staring 30 down the barrel, and while many are enjoying its fruits, a significant number of people around the world still can't access it affordably and fairly.
Back in the web's 20th year, its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, founded the Web Foundation, a nonprofit that aimed to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right. Berners-Lee remains very much the visionary spokesman for the organization, but last summer the group appointed a new president and CEO to lead the foundation as the web navigates into the next stage of maturity.
