World Wide Web Consortium
Founded in 1994
by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee
Operations (
locations
)
360
Members
(
mapping history
)
Based at MIT (US), ERCIM (France) and Keio University (Japan) + 14
Offices
65
Team members
: 90% technical staff
Funding: Member fees plus government and industry grants
Method of work
Strong
Process
and royalty-free
Patent Policy
Consensus
,
openess
,
interoperability
Liaisons
with
40+ other standards bodies
Accountable
to the global
Public
See W3C's home page (
http://www.w3.org/
),
Prospectus
, and Flyer:
US
,
A4
.
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