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

Query constraints:

• Possible presentation dates: past few months and upcoming
• on behalf of any W3C office

Australia

• José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "How to make the most out of eGovernment" at the "Web Standards Group Meeting" on Thursday, 15 May 2008, in Melbourne, Australia.
• José Manuel Alonso gives an invited talk on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "How to make the most out of eGovernment" at the "Web Standards Group Meeting" on Friday, 16 May 2008, in Sydney, Australia.
• José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "Improving Government through better use of the Web" at the "Web Directions South: Government" on Monday, 19 May 2008, in Canberra, Australia. (see abstract)
  Abstract:

  It’s no secret that just as the web has revolutionised business, the media, and many other parts of our lives, it is also revolutionising how governments and citizens interact, and how government provide services. But how to do it well is still something of a black art. In this keynote presentation, the lead of the W3C's eGovernment initiative, Jose Manuel Alonso, looks at the opportunities the web provides governments, the challenges, old and new, the web poses, and the role of the W3C in helping to develop underlying, interoperable technologies with which to build these services. Jose's presentation will cover best practices and methodologies for providing eGovernment services, and look at case studies of how governments and communities are connecting via the web around the world.
• José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote on behalf of the Australia Office entitled "Towards eGovernment 2.0" at the "eGovernment Forum at CeBIT" on Wednesday, 21 May 2008, in Sydney, Australia. (see abstract)
  Abstract:

  eGovernment services are achieving the highest levels of sophistication ever. Several countries are at 100% of online availability and close to perfectly sophisticated services but even so, their usage is not taking off and some good old problems are still unsolved. This talk will review the challenges that governments are still facing and propose ways to tackle them by using open standards, improving transparency and participation and achieving seamless integration of data.

Brazil

• Daniel Dardailler gives a talk on behalf of the Brazil Office entitled "W3C - Web Open Standards" at the "W3C Brazil Office Launch event " on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
• José Manuel Alonso gives a talk on behalf of the Brazil Office entitled "Towards eGovernment 2.0 through better use of the Web" at the "W3C Brazil Office Public Launch" on Wednesday, 4 June 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

China

• Seungyun Lee gives a keynote entitled "Mobile Web goes 2.0" at the "MobEA IV workshop - collocated with WWW2008 conference" on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, in Beijing, China.

Germany

• Phil Archer and Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to POWDER (tentative)" at the "Web 2.0 Telecoms" on Monday, 10 March 2008, in Berlin, Germany.

Hungary

• Bert Bos gives an invited talk on behalf of the Hungary Office entitled "Advanced layout in CSS" at the "Magyarországi Web Konferencia 2008 (Hungarian Web Conference 2008)" on Saturday, 26 April 2008, in Budapest, Hungary.

Israel

• Daniel Dardailler gives a talk on behalf of the Israel Office entitled "W3C Open Standard " at the "Launch W3C Israel Office" on Sunday, 25 May 2008, in Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Italy

• Oreste Signore gives a tutorial entitled " Origini, motivazioni e regole di evoluzione del World Wide Web (Origins, motivations and evolution rules for the World Wide Web)" at the "Storia dell' Informatica (History of informatics)" on Monday, 28 April 2008, in Pisa, Italy. (see abstract)
  Abstract:

  A brief history of the Web, with an insight towards the Semantic Web
• Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Tecnologie W3C per l'e-inclusion (W3C Technologies for e-inclusion)" (see abstract) and gives a tutorial entitled "Introduzione al Semantic Web (Introduction to Semantic Web)" (see abstract) at the " Web Senza Barriere '08 (No barriers in the Web '08)" , on Wednesday, 7 May 2008, in Roma, Italy.
  Abstract for “Tecnologie W3C per l'e-inclusion”:

  Generalities about accessibility and main points of WCAG 2.0
  Abstract for “Introduzione al Semantic Web”:

  Basic principles of Semantic Web and related technologies
• Oreste Signore gives an invited talk entitled "Il supporto delle ontologie nella ricerca dell' informazione (Ontology support in information retrieval)" at the "La strutturazione delle informazioni nella documentazione tecnica (Information structuring in technical documentation)" on Friday, 23 May 2008, in Udine, Italy.

Korea

• Seungyun Lee gives a talk entitled "Prospects of Mobile Web 2.0 in Korea" at the "Mobile Monday Seoul" on Monday, 7 April 2008, in Seoul, Korea, Korea.
• Kangchan Lee gives a talk entitled "Korean Member Report & Taking Action as AC Representative" at the "2008 W3C 대한민국 회원사 워크샵 (2008 W3C Korean member's Workshop)" on Wednesday, 18 June 2008, in Seoul, Korea.
• Kangchan Lee gives an invited talk entitled "차세대 웹 기술 동향 (The Trends of Next Generation Web)" at the "Korea Computer Congress 2008" on Tuesday, 1 July 2008, in Bokwang , Korea.

Morocco

• Najib Tounsi gives an invited talk entitled "L’Importance des Standards Ouverts pour l'Interopérabilité (On the importance of open standards for Interoperability)" at the "Atelier International «Développement de l’administration électronique : Rôle et importance de l’interopérabilité des SI de l’Administration» (International Workshop, "Development of e-government: The role and importance of interoperability")" on Wednesday, 23 April 2008, in Rabat, Morocco. (see abstract)
  Abstract:

  Le Web et les technologies de l'information sont utilisés par les différents organes du gov/adm pour interagir entre eux et avec le citoyen. Il est donc essentiel pour ces technologies de travailler ensemble et façon interchangeable. Mon intervention portera sur pourquoi la conformité aux standards ouverts est le fondement pour cette interopérabilité. Cet exposé portera sur ces standards, leur développement au sein du W3C et des efforts W3C pour le eGov.

Spain

• Jesús García gives a talk entitled "Claves de accesibilidad para las empresas" at the "Expansión Conferencias: Novedades Legislativas para el Impulso de la sociedad de la Información y la Protección de Datos" on Thursday, 8 May 2008, in Madrid, Spain.
• Steve Bratt gives a keynote on behalf of the Spain Office entitled "Fast Forward: Get Ready for Web 3.0" at the "bdigital Global Congress" on Tuesday, 20 May 2008, in Barcelona, Spain. (see abstract)
  Abstract:

  The Web has been a tremendous vehicle for global communication, commerce and change. A suite of emerging technologies is leveraging the fundamental principles that has made Web a success, and will enable the useful integration of data, information and knowledge from across the entire Web. Steve Bratt, CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), will discuss how new, interoperable standards in areas such Web 2.0 semantic Web, mobility, ubiquity, accessibility and security will foster unbounded, Web-scale mashups of information made available on an increasing range of devices. The benefits of this new "Web 3.0" will be felt by everyone everywhere -- from physicians seeking critical information to deliver better medical care, to farmers in rural Africa looking for the most favorable markets for their produce.

Sweden

• Olle Olsson runs a booth entitled "Vad nytt under webben? (What's new in the web?)" and gives a talk entitled "HTML 5 - kommande HTML-standard (HTML 5 - future HTML standard)" at the "SICS Open House 2008" , on Thursday, 17 April 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Framtidsspaning (Looking into the Future)" at the "ITARC2008" on Friday, 18 April 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Olle Olsson gives a talk entitled "Internationalisering och lokalisering -- språk på webben (Internationalization and Localization - languages on the web)" at the "Språk och Internet (Languages and the Internet)" on Wednesday, 14 May 2008, in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Olle Olsson participates at a panel entitled "Framtidssäkra eFörvaltningen (Technologies and the future of eGovernment)" at the "Offentliga Rummet 2008 (The Public Room 2008)" on Monday, 2 June 2008, in Västerås, Sweden.

UK

• 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.
• Michael Wilson runs a booth at the "New Frontiers for Engineering and Science" on Thursday, 26 June 2008, in Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom.