David Bowen

Anyone who has any involvement with a website must have been thinking about accessibility. That is, whether people with disabilities can use the site. It’s a hot topic, not least because site owners could conceivably find themselves on the wrong end of a court case if they are making inadequate provision, writes co-founder David Bowen in this 2004 article

Corporate Social Responsibility (usually ESG these days) was born at pretty much the same time as the world wide web – and their growth has been linked. ‘Websites are good at handling complexity, and CSR is complex,’ we said in 2003. Conversely, CSR has made corporates websites more important as business tools. We’ve spent a lot of time tracking how well companies present their non-financial data, but back then we were also worrying about something that is still too relevant: how to make social responsibility seem remotely interesting.

The internet showed its true colours last week; some good, some bad, some ugly. As I watched the terrible events in New York live on television, I also tried to get into various news websites for more information. Anyone else relying on the internet for complete coverage would probably have been frustrated, writes David Bowen in this 2001 article.