Ford Foundation-Backed NetGain Launching

NetGain, a new open Internet initiative, will launch Wednesday at a Ford Foundation event in New York City. NetGain has the backing of the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation and the Open Society Foundation, a news release said. Participants in Wednesday’s event, which will be webcast, include Gwen Ifill, Washington Week managing editor; Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Foundation founder; filmmaker Laura Poitras; and Ethan Zuckerman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Civic Media director. NetGain's principles include protecting privacy, transparency and free speech online.