Internet guru
Nicholas
Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop per Child, has
praised the Nominet Trust for providing six grants to help society
through the development of the internet.
He said, "The future of the internet relies on institutions like
Nominet Trust to force the pace of innovation by funding projects
that keep moral purpose at the heart of internet development."
Nominet Trust has
provided £5m in grants for internet projects at the British
Computer Association of the Blind, ChildNet, YouthNet, The
Cambridge Global Grid for Learning and Cambridge Library Services.
The Trust's funding will also support The Internet Society's
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet Governance
Forum fellowship programmes, which aim to ensure the continued
responsible development of the Internet in both the developed and
developing world.
