SDF

Opening Remarks :
 - Won-Gil Woo [Chief Executive Secretary, Seoul Digital Forum / President & CEO, SBS]

Keynote Address
Visionary :
 - Tim BERNERS-LEE [Inventor, World Wide Web / Director, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]

The World Wide Web and Worldwide Collaboration : Why Collaborate Across the World?
The need for collaboration was what drove Sir Tim Berners-Lee originally to invent the World Wide Web back in 1989. While it took off as a publishing medium for most of its 20 years, and although new tools and websites have more widely enabled the ability to share information in blogs, wikis or cloud-based collaborative platforms, the web has not really fulfilled its potential as a collaborative medium. The web works as human communication though shared knowledge. It is a powerful tool that reflects humanity—or at least the 20 percent of humanity that currently has access to it. This ability to connect provides a good foundation, but the world needs more collaborative tools. People still mainly talk to their neighbours, people who have the same religion and the same culture. The web is certainly breaking down geographical boundaries in principle but has not yet broken down cultural boundaries. Sir Berners-Lee tells us how we can develop systems on the web that will help solve these huge challenges and enable true collaboration in every sense.