Community

The Web's Big Build (WBB) is an open public initiative that anybody can contribute to.

No one can upgrade the web alone. It's something that we all do, together. Not as a sentiment. As the reality of how the upgrade works, because it relies on each of us owning our own Personal Online Data Stores (PODs) as the building blocks of a better, decentralised web.

The key people, organisations and communities developing the technology for the upgrade include:

• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web in 1989, then programmed the first web browser in 1990 while employed at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN);

• The Massechuessets Institute of Technology (MIT), who - in partnership with Sir Berners-Lee - have created Solid, the underlying technology for PODs and the upgraded web;

• Inrupt, a start-up co-founded by Sir Berners-Lee to help ignite the Solid ecosystem; and

• The open source Solid developer community, who are constantly refining Solid and improving it for deployment at scale.

Building on these efforts, the WBB has been launched as an open public initiative, to give the global community an opportunity to come together and consider how to implement Web 3.0 collaboratively, using a public infrastructure management approach.

The initiative is being administered by Cameron Brenton, an Australian expert in public infrastructure planning, delivery and management. The proposal is for the next phase to be delivered by a global network of POD delivery agencies, owned by national communities, together.

Please review the About page to learn more about how you can contribute to a revolutionary web, owned and empowered by us all.