Community
The Web's Big Build (WBB) is an open community that you can join and 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 leading and developing the technology for the upgrade include:
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 leading and 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.