The World Wide Web Foundation is about to launch and needs your help! We're looking for bright and motivated volunteers who can help support our staff across a range of projects. Volunteers can be located anywhere in the world as long as you have good internet connection but our office (and available work space) is in downtown Boston, Massachussets.
About The World Wide Web Foundation
The World Wide Web Foundation is an international grassroots non-profit founded by inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, that seeks to advance the Web and empower people through highly scalable and impact-driven programs. The Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, governments, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale. By funding research, technology development, and outreach, the Web Foundation strives to enable all people to share knowledge, access services, conduct commerce, participate in good governance, and communicate in creative ways, so they can improve their lives and communities. For more information, visit www.webfoundation.org.
Help us communicate our message!
- Building demos - programming voice/web/sms interfaces on mobile phones to demonstrate various problems and solutions
- General research - finding and synthesizing stats and trends for our presentations and website (mobile phones, ICTs, international development, Web technologies, etc.)
- Content aggregation - building internal database of relevant news and content for future distribution
- Content distribution - pushing database news and content through social media channels
- Content creation - writing blogs, tweets, etc.
- Message sampling - searching and summarizing public discussion of WF on formal and social media channels
- Market research - focus groups for testing our broad range of messages
- Translation - we aim to be truly international so need help translating our website, marketing material, demos, etc. into other languages
- Graphics support - designing and editing our creative work in photoshop, adobe illustrator, powerpoint, etc.
- Video editing and captioning - processing our raw footage and making it accessible for others
Help us however you can!
- If you have a particular skill or interest not listed above then please let us know how you think you could help now or in the future. We're open to suggestions.
Contact Information
If you are interested and would like to get involved with this exciting and important new initiative please contact our Volunteer Program Manager, Ben Thompson, at
volunteer@webfoundation.org
