World Wide Web Index
By Bala Shah

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, also launched the non profit World Wide Web Foundation.

The World Wide Web Foundation has been given $1 Million as seed funding to create a Web Index

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The World Wide Web Foundation is very pleased to announce an exciting new initiative: the World Wide Web Index.   We thank Google for a generous grant of US $1 million to the Foundation, which we are using to seed the creation of the Index. 

What is the Web Index? The Web Index will be the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web and its impact on people in a large number of countries.  It will be a composite index, incorporating political, economic, social, and developmental indicators, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure.

Why compile a Web Index?  The Index will allow for comparisons of trends over time and across borders. It will provide indications of technical conditions that are present or not present in a country that are at least coincidental with, if not related to,  the political, economic and social impact of the Web.  This will make it a powerful tool of analysis for policy makers and investors, allowing them to make more effective and better targeted investment strategies.
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The World Wide Web Foundation employs at least two Indians in senior positions.  Aman Grewal is one of the Program Managers and Mumbai and US educated Shivali Mehta is their Finance and Accounts Manager.