W3C Exec Summary

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an International Consortium where Member and External organizations, a full-time technical staff, and the public work together to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing Web standards such as protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

• Goals: Interoperability, Universality, Functionalities
• Neutral/nonforprofit, consensus based, open participation, open results
• ~450 members, ~70 staff,
• ~50 Working Groups ~20 Coordination Groups and Interest Groups
• Hosting: MIT (America), ERCIM (Europe) and Keio University (Japan) + 17 Offices
• Advisory Board, Technical Architecture Group
• Liaisons with 40+ other standards bodies, Accountable to the global Public

What Open Standards means ?

A lot of debates nowadays for a common definition of Open Standards(IGF, EC, etc)

• Transparent process
• Open participation
• Technical Consensus
• Running code
• Free and Persistent Specification
• W3C Patent Policy for Web Technologies

W3C Standards Track

W3C Results

Web Office Program

• Started in 1997
• Roles/Benefits of the Offices
  • Internationalization of W3C, being truly worldwide
  • Increasing membership in the region, better participation and transfer of knowledge from/about the region to W3C
  • Raising W3C awareness in the region, through appearances, events organized by Offices
  • Regional networking, especially with governmental agencies, eGov advocates
  • Improving press contacts, local education and dissemination of our results and Keeping the program under control, human and scalable.

Roadmap

Existing offices creation years + some potential candidates.

Map for 2010 ?

Other topics of interest ?

• Our International Relations and Liaison activities

  IGF, ICANN, etc

• Our Web Accessibility Initiative work

  Guidelines, Legal aspects, WCAG2.0

• Semantic Web, Web Science