Research on the development and future of the World Wide Web is featured in a new BBC season of programmes, Superpower, which began on Monday 8 March and runs for two weeks.

The Web Science Trust has been granted charitable status, in a move which will enable greater focused, global development of the discipline.

The first episode of BBC's landmark series Virtual Revolution airs 830pm on BB2 Saturday January 30th. Web Science has played a formative role in shaping this series. Professor Nigel Shadbolt acted as Series Consultant and appears with Sir Tim Berner-Lee. We will be linking the issues raised  by the series into a range of material here at the Web Science Trust site.

Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt have played a key role in the development of the new data.gov.uk web site launched today by the UK Government.

Speaking yesterday at No.10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced that he had asked Professor Nigel Shadbolt of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton to lead a panel of experts who will oversee the release of local public data, ensuring that it is linked effectively across relevant agencies, authorities and government departments.

Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt will give the opening keynote at the Online Information Conference 2009 at Olympia, London, on 1 December. 

We Science Trust Directors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt are behind the significant change in UK policy towards public data announced by the Prime Minster yesterday (17 November).

World Wide Web Foundation launched global operations and announced its first ambitious projects at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum.

The next stage of the web’s evolution presents huge business opportunities, say Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt, in an article in Computing magazine.

Professor David De Roure has been appointed to the new role of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) National Strategic Director of e-Social Science.