Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web, Founder of W3C, Co-founder & CTO of Inrupt

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researchethics safetydata analytics

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (OM, KBE, FRS, FRSA) ye Angilɛtɛri ordinateuri dɔnnikɛla de ye min ye World Wide Web da CERN la san 1989, ka HTTP, HTML ani URIw sigida fɔlɔw labɛn. A ye Inrupt ka dafalenɲɔgɔn ye ani CTO fan, tɔgɔdɔnkili min bɛ baara kɛ open-source Solid platform kan walasa ka donnee mara hakɛ ani web marayɔrɔbali ɲɛfɛta. A fana bɛ baara kɛ i n’a fɔ Founder ani Emeritus Director ye World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) la, duniɲa ka standardiw badan min a y’a sigi walasa ka web labɛnni ɲɛnabɔ.

A bɛ kalanbaara sigiyɔrɔw minnu la i n’a fɔ Emeritus 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering ye MIT CSAIL la ani Professor ye Computer Science Department la University of Oxford la, ani a ye Open Data Institute ka dafalenɲɔgɔn fana ye. A ka tanuya dɔw bɛ se ka kɛ ACM A.M. Turing Award (2017), Millennium Technology Prize, ani Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, ni bonya wɛrɛw caman ye.

Solid Project ani Data Sovereignty

A ka kɛlɛn kɛra web la fɔlɔba baarakɛcogo kɔfɛ, Berners-Lee ye a ka baara sanw caman bɔra kɔfɛ ka se ka fɔ ko mɔgɔw ka yɛrɛ taamasiɲɛnw bɛ ɲɛnabɔ internet kan cogo min na, o bɛ se ka kɛ jɔyɔrɔ dɔ ye. A ka jaabi o furancogo la ye Solid protocol ye, open-source teknik standard dɔ min a y’a da Decentralized Information Group (DIG) fɛ, min a y’a da MIT CSAIL la. Solid bɛ se ka fɛn caman na minnu tun tɛ web fɔlɔ specification la, olu kɔnɔ bɛ global single sign-on, universal access control, ani data API min bɛ se ka sira di application bɛɛ ma ka taamasiɲɛnw mara ani ka olu sɔrɔ storage yɔrɔ bɛɛ la minnu bɛ ɲɔgɔn fɛ.

Solid ka baara kɛcogo tilenna bɛ Berners-Lee ka fɔ ko Data Wallets ye — mara yɔrɔw laban ani minnu bɛ se ka baara kɛ ɲɔgɔn fɛ, minnu bɛ mɔgɔ dɔ ka taamasiɲɛnw lajɛ a yɛrɛ ka mara kɔnɔ, ka tɛmɛ proprietary platforms kan minnu la olu bɛ jɛnsɛn-jɛnsɛn. A ka kuma o architecture la ye ko taamasiɲɛnw ka cɛrɛcɛrɛya bɛ olu ka nafa tiɲɛnen dɔgɔya: ni mɔgɔ dɔ ka kɛnɛya sɛbɛnniw, wari taariiki, ani a ka sigidaamadenya baaraw bɛ sigilen baara kɛyɔrɔw caman la, o taamasiɲɛnw cɛ ka ɲɔgɔn donni bɛ to dogolen. Ka olu lajɛ yɔrɔ kelen dɔ la min bɛ mara kɔnɔ, a ka fɔcogo la, o de yɔrɔ ye min na hakilijigin nafamaw bɛ se ka bɔ.

AI, Web ka Business Model, ani Charlie

Berners-Lee ye hakilila ka AI sɔrɔliw bɛ ɲɔgɔn cogo di web ka ekonomiya duguma fɛ. A ka kuma FT Future of AI Summit la san 2025 kalo 11 na, a ye hakilijigin dɔ jira ko ni large language models bɛ taa ɲɛfɛ ka kunnafoniw lajɛ ani ka olu jira kɛncogo la tɛgɛ users ma, mɔgɔ fitinin de bɛ taa websites yɔrɔw la minnu bɛ o contenu da. Sababu web ka business model baajɔrɔ bɛ da mɔgɔ ka ɲɛfɛli kan min bɛ publicite wari na, ni AI cɛsiraw bɛ contenu don users nɔ fɛ ka tɛ olu cɛ ka taa sɔrɔ yɔrɔw ma, o bɛ jɔyɔrɔ furancogo dɔ da min, a ka kuma la, “a ka kan ka yɛlɛma ka kɛ fɛn wɛrɛ ye.”

A fana ye dɔn ko model min bɛ da publicite kan, o yɛrɛ bɛ na ni a ka wariw ye. Publicite minnu bɛ da mɔgɔ dɔ kan kosɛbɛ bɛ se ka users kɛ i n’a fɔ ko olu bɛ lajɛ, ani dɔw bɛ sɛgɛsɛgɛlen o la. Jɛnjɛnna min AI nana ni a ye, hali ni a bɛ yɔrɔw yiribɔ, a bɛ fenɛtiri dɔ da ka se ka o sigicogo taasi kura. A ka entreprise yɛrɛ, Inrupt, bɛ baara kɛ conversational AI produit dɔ kan min tɔgɔ ye Charlie, min bɛ sɔrɔ user ka yɛrɛ taamasiɲɛnw la minnu maralen bɛ Solid-compatible data wallet la, ka jaabiw da minnu bɛ bɛn user ma, k’a to users bɛ se ka fɔ kɛnɛya la service jɔnw de bɛ se ka don o kunnafoniw la. O cogo bɛ a ka design philosophie kelen dɔ jira: AI min bɛ na ni mɔgɔ ka yɛrɛ taamasiɲɛn nafamaw ye bɛ se ka nafamanya ka bon, nka o bɛ se de ni taamasiɲɛn tigi ye se ka mara tiɲɛnen sɔrɔ a kan.

This Is for Everyone: Hakilitaasira ani Tɛmɛsira ka Tɛmɛli

San 2025 laban fɛ, Berners-Lee ye hakilitaasira dɔ bɔ min tɔgɔ ye This Is for Everyone, kuma dɔ min a tun y’a di 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony ma. Tɔgɔ o bɛ dabari kelen dɔ jira min a bɛ tugu ka fɔ tuma bɛɛ ko web ka kɛlɛnden sababu ye mun ye — plateforme dɔ min bɛ se ka sɔrɔ mɔgɔ bɛɛ ye ka dɔnni ani dafalenya sababu la, ka tɛ kɛ infrastructure ye min labɛnnen don ka wari bɔ walima ka fanga lajɛ yɔrɔ kelen la. Sɛbɛn o bɛ web ka sigidaamaya taariiki fɔ, hali ni cogo minnu na a ye bɔ a ka fɔlɔ niyajɛ la, ani a bɛ sira dɔ jira min bɛ se ka a ka demokrasiya cogo hakɛ sɔrɔ kokura.

A ka kuma fɔliw ka bonya yɔrɔw la tuma o la, olu bɛ segin ka na tuma caman ko web ka furancogow — plateformew ka lajɛya, taamasiɲɛn nafabɔya, publicite ekonomiya ka dɔgɔya AI ka sɛgɛsɛgɛli kɔrɔ — olu ye design furancogow fana ye i n’a fɔ sariyaw de tɛ. Solid protocol ani baara min bɛ kɛ Inrupt la bɛ a ka jaabi cogo fisaya jira: teknik standards minnu bɛ sababu ani nafajuguya dugumaw yɛlɛma, ka tɛ da policy intervention kelen kan. Ni a ye MIT ani Oxford la kalanbaara ye, walima standards labɛnni baara ye W3C la, walima commerce ɲɛfɛtaasi ye Inrupt fɛ, kuma sira in ye to ka kelenya mara san bɛɛ kɔnɔ ka tɛmɛ san bi saba ni dɔ kɔfɛ web ka baara tiɲɛnen cogo la.

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