Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

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June 2008

13 June: Michael Wilson participates at a panel entitled "Rita 2.0 - Effective Methods and Messages in Online Safety Education.' " at the "'Beyond Byron - Towards a New Culture of Responsibility," on Friday, 13 June 2008, in Oxford, United Kingdom. (see abstract)

Abstract:

Asked by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to investigate the new dangers to children being brought up in the digital age, Dr. Tanya Byron, under the auspices of the Department for Children, Schools and Families, produced a 224-page report. Using ideas and questions from the Thursday Evening Lecture, an invited panel will delve deeper into the meaningful delivery of online safety education at the roundtable on June 13th.

17 October: Renato Iannella gives a keynote entitled "The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual Goods" at the "6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods" on Friday, 17 October 2008, in Poznan, Poland. (see abstract)

Abstract:

The Policy-Aware Web is the promise for supporting policy management at the Web infrastructure level. A policy is any set of rules or statements that capture and express the requirements of individuals and organsaitions from a corporate, legal, best practices, and/or social perspective. Currently, policy languages exisit that cover and broadly address the privacy, access control, and obligation management areas. However, what is missing is an overall framework and architecture for these policy languages to interoperate and provide an accountable, enforceable, flexible and trusted experience for the web community. This talk will review the technology challanges that face the Policy-Aware Web, the current policy specifications and the supporting standards and the road forward towards an enhanced web architecture. The goal is to provide a balance between creators, distributors, and consumers of digital goods by providing an open and transparent framework to transact and exchange digital items over the policy-savvy web.