Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute the prize to the then President of Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, in 1990 aroused great interest. In 2011, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize was presented to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and the 2015 award went to World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute The Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI) is an independent think-tank and the oldest organisation of its kind in Switzerland. It is located in Rüschlikon, near Zurich. The GDI is located on the edge of the Park im Grüene. Established on 1 September 1963, the research institute was conceived by and named after the founder of Migros, Gottlieb Duttweiler.
Glenn Davis (web design) "Cool Site of the Day" in November 1995. In January 1996 he founded "Project Cool" with Teresa Martin, a new media specialist at Knight Ridder. This new venture was conceived as an educational resource center teaching web development. "Project Cool" continued the daily award concept under the name "Project Cool Sighting." The site became a respected and widely used resource on web development techniques, and its founders co-authored two books to complement it. Davis co-founded the Web Standards Project with Tim Bray, Jeffrey Zeldman and George Olsen, among others. In 2000, he founded "Astounding Websites", an online forum created to