LISBON—British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, appealed on Nov. 5 for companies and governments not to leave behind half of the world’s population yet to have internet access, which includes billions of women and girls.
Berners-Lee told the opening of Europe’s largest technology conference that everyone had assumed his breakthrough in 1989, that connected humanity to technology, would lead to good things—and it had for a while.
