Description of Resource: 
Users access links to WiWiW's project description, methodology, a webpage for contacting project administrators (if you are an internet "pioneer," for example, and would like your story to be recorded -- the "Contribute" link also provides users with an opportunity to participate in the project, biographies of the project's staff. Finally, the "Pioneers Gallery" displays pictures of internet pioneers who have contributed interviews to the project.
Address: 
CA
United States
Contact name: 
Andreu Veà Ph.D. (Founder and Director)
Is there a fee: 
No
Sector: 
Services: 
WiWiW's website is an information resource. "WiWiW stands for: Who is Who in the Internet World. Its main goal is to leave a digital-recorded register of the ideas which lead the main internet pioneers to made the Net as we know it today. Rejecting other than primary-sourced histories from the founders, and deployers" (excerpted from WiwiW's website).... It's a unique collection of interconnected easy-to-read multimedia documents. Produced as executive summaries of the personal conducted interviews (one to three hours each), which collect digital voice, basic bibliography and pictures, from the pioneers. In this way, the website is "[a] perpetual archive devoted to Internet pioneers worldwide" (excerpted from the Internet Society's History of the Internet webpage). The Project seeks to highlight those (sometimes) unknown people who devoted (at least 10 years) to the Internet. Creators, inventors, protocol implementers and also all those who silently brought the internet to their own countries. WiWiW's research is by now focused on: UNITED STATES and SPAIN So far there are 140 interviews done. And over 750 people (600+ institutions) have been reached worldwide for prospective interviews. [2] IBEROAMERICA. At this time, WiWiW has contacted more than 400 Official Information Society organizations in 22 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Uruguay and Venezuela). [And, 3] OECD. Right now the WiWiW team is working to find the 3 to 5 Internet pioneers in each of the OECD's countries" (excerpted from WiwiW's website).
Public or private: 
Public
Website or physical archive: 
Website only