The many meanings of Open | Sir Tim Berners-Lee for #TheOpenAgenda | Telefónica Digital Hub

"A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) ... 'I was recently asked to talk about the idea of 'open', and I realized the term is used in at least eight different ways. The distinct interpretations are all important in different but interlocking ways. Getting them confused leads to a lot of misunderstanding, so it’s good to review them all. When we tease apart their meanings, we can understand more clearly which aspects of each are the most important. The first, one of the most important forms of openness for the Web, is its universality ...'"