What is the Web Development Fund?

The Web Development Fund is a project of Web Lab. The WDF is intended to provide support and visibility for innovative new projects that demonstrate the potential of the Web as a "many-to-many" medium capable of catalyzing new perspectives, new thinking, and new relationships between people. In the past, Web Lab has announced an open call for proposals. WDF is not a foundation and does not make grants.

The Web Development Fund underwrites independent Web projects that:

  • make imaginative use of the Web's capabilities as an interactive, participatory medium
  • explore both personal and public issues in new ways
  • promise to seek fresh perspectives on complex issues
  • put technology and design at the service of content
  • are produced by people who care about the subject and know something about it
  • are dynamic rather than static
  • evolve over time and are enriched and informed by visitors to the site and/or a thoughtfully recruited mix of people with varying backgrounds and perspectives.



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