2007-11-14: W3C welcomes Martha Merzbach as a new staff member of the W3C Germany and Austria Office. Martha was trained as a Math. Technical Assistant at former GMD and worked for many years as web programmer in GMD and Fraunhofer. Martha will support Thomas Tikwinski the manager of the W3C Germany and Austria Office.
2007-10-30: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C Brazil Office, hosted by the NIC.br (Brazilian Network Information Center) institute, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Vagner Diniz is Office Manager. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking community through this Office, its first in South America. The IT landscape in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C such as mobile Web, Web applications and video on the Web. Read the press release.
2007-10-30: W3C congratulates Amit Parashar for becoming the new Manager of the Australia Office, and thanks Ross Ackland for his successful leadership and initiatives at the Office all these years, among others the launch of a W3C day in Australia. Prior to joining W3C Australia Office in July 2007, Amit was the manager of an Australian Government initiative to develop a Spatial Data Infrastructure based on service oriented architecture principles and standards. He has a BSc in Computer Science from University of Tasmania, and he is interested in management of intellectual property on the web and semantic web. Ross will remain as Deputy Office Manager.
2007-10-04: W3C welcomes Jagmohan Prashar as a new staff member of the W3C India Office. Jagmohan holds a PG Diploma from CDAC and a B. Tech Computer Science from U.P. Technical University Lucknow. During the last 2 years he worked already with CDAC Noida on different projects majorly on Multilingual Computing. Jagmohan will support VN Shukla the manager of the W3C India Office.
2007-09-24: On October 1st, 2007 the W3C Office in Hong Kong, hosted by HKUST, will merge with the W3C China Office in Beijing, hosted at the School of Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang University. Opened a year and a half ago, W3C Mainland China Office will now become W3C's main point of contact for this very large community. W3C welcomes this evolution and the new regional partnership between these two organizations, put in place to help broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
W3C would like to thank the Hong Kong Office Manager Prof. Vincent Shen, the administrator Eva Tam, the project assistant Yin-Tik Que Dee and the former administrator Yammie Yuen for their invaluable contributions to promote W3C's mission in this world's region.
2007-07-19: W3C welcomes Amit Parashar as a new staff member of the W3C Australia Office. Amit has a BSc in Computer Science from University of Tasmania. He was the manager of an Australian Government initiative to develop a Spatial Data Infrastructure based on service oriented architecture principles and standards. He has also a strong interest in management of intellectual property on the web and the semantic web in general. Amit will support Ross Ackland the manager of the W3C Australia Office.
2007-07-17: This year's W3C-Tag" (W3C Day) organized by the W3C Office Germany and Austria will be in Berlin on September 29th. Beside an annual report about the work of W3C and the W3C Office Germany and Austria the day will focus on the subject of Rich Web Applications. W3C is working on standards that provide a stable and reliable platform for this kind of applications and will integrate these standards with the existing W3C web standards. Speakers from W3C team and from W3C members will inform about the progress made so far. As in the last years the W3C-Tag will be part of the Berliner XML-Tage (Berlin XML-Days).
2007-07-13W3C Spain Office, together with Fundación CTIC and the City Council of Zaragoza, will host the 'I Jornadas de Web Móvil' ('1st Conference on Mobile Web'), also known as 'MWeb’07' (in Spanish), which will take place 12-13 September in Zaragoza, Spain, within the Spanish Conference on Computer Science (CEDI). The main objective of this event is creating a meeting point for professionals, companies, and researchers interested in the potential of a standard-based Web which is accessible from all kinds of mobile devices (phones, PDAs, handset devices, and so on). Registration for the Conference is still open. Visit the event’s home page and consult the program.
2007-07-13 Sydney - 26 September 2007 The Web Directions South Conference held in Sidney on September 26th will host the W3C’s Special Interest Group day, in conjunction with the W3C Australia Office. It’s a whole day seminar covering the latest developments from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). One of the speakers will be Bert Boss from W3C. He will give a talk on CSS.
2007-06-27 The W3C Spain Office is pleased to present Tantek Çelik, Jeffrey Veen, Tim Berners-Lee (by video link), and other noted Web standards experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5 October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Well-knowned representatives from Microsoft, Opera, Mozilla, Nokia, Konqueror, Flickr, Last FM, etc. will also present at the event. Registration for the conference, which sold out for the second time last year, is open and offers discounts for unemployed people as well as for W3C Members. Read the press release.
2007-04-24: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announces the launch of its Southern Africa Office and invites experts in the region to join the international effort of developing Web standards at W3C. The Office is hosted by the Meraka Institute, a centre managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. W3C invites the public and press to attend the opening ceremony that takes place at the CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria on 14 May 2007. Representatives from the industry and academic leaders in Southern Africa will speak on the state of Information Communications and Technology (ICT) and the W3C staff will present recent work. To attend, please send an email containing your name, designation, company and contact details to Dikeledi Moche at +27 12 841 2110 .
2007-03-01: After working more than six years as manager of the Benelux W3C-Office Frank Roos hands over to Martine Roeleveld. Frank led the office since January 2001 and was responsible for the extension of the former Netherlands to the Benelux office. W3C thanks Frank for all the successful work. Martine worked as Public Relations Officer and Scientific Reporter for the BRICKS research project (Basic Research in Informatics for Creating the Knowledge Society) at CWI (the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands) before. W3C welcomes her as new manager of the Benelux Office and wishes her success in her new work.
2007-03-01: Together with the NJSZT (Janos Neumann Computer Science Association) the Hungarian W3C office organizes a "Webconference in Hungary (Magyarországi Web Konferencia 2007)" the second time. While the office acted last year as a professional partner it organizes this year a W3C track as well. There will be 6 presentations, about Mobile Web, WAI-ARIA, WCAG, Security and Semantic Web. Éva Megyaszai and Máté Pataki from the Hungarian W3C office as well as Thomas Roessler from the W3C team will be among the speakers on this track.
2007-02-06: (from W3C Home Page News): W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on 5-6 February in Sophia Antipolis, France. Representatives of W3C's sixteen world Offices met at INRIA to discuss W3C Membership issues, Office events and new staff, outreach, and plans for the future. (Photo credit: Karl Dubost.)
2007-01-08: José Manuel Alonso who was manager of the Spanish office since April 2004 joined the team of W3C. He works in the Technology and Society Domain on the topic of e-government as W3C fellow sponsored by CTIC. As a consequence of this change Encarna Queseda who joined the Spanish office in April 2004 was appointed as new manager of the spanish office. W3C welcomes José in the team and is pleased to see Encarna as the new manager of the Spanish office. W3C thanks both of them for their contributions to the work of the spanish office so far.
by Ross Ackland , in cooperation with the Australia Office
Sydney, Australia
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
CSS
by Bert Bos , in cooperation with the Australia Office
Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day
Sydney, Australia
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
by Daniel Dardailler , in cooperation with the China Office
U.S. – China Symposium on Active Industry Participation in Standardization
Beijing, China
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the China Office
首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007)
(First China Semantic Web Symposium)
Beijing, China
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
by Mauro Nunez , in cooperation with the China Office
Zheijiang University
Hangzhou, China
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the China Office
Zheijiang University
Hangzhou, China
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
by Steve Bratt , in cooperation with the China Office
Open Standards International Conference 2007
Beijing, China
The World Wide Web Needs World Wide Standards
by Steve Bratt , in cooperation with the China Office
Open Standards International Conference 2007
Beijing, China
(see abstract)
Now and Future Web Technologies
by Steve Bratt , in cooperation with the China Office
Beihang University
Beijing, China
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the Finland Office
Tampere University of Technology and the W3C Finnish Office
Tampere, Finland
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
by Ossi Nykänen
Service Oriented Architecture/Web Service/Web 2.0
Tampere, Finland
by Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
Dortmund, Germany
Semantic Web: Anspruch und Wirklichkeit (Semantic Web: Claims and reality)
by Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
Handlungsschemata als Grundlage visueller und begrifflicher Strukturierung in der Wissensrepräsentation
(Visual and Conceptual Structuring of Action-dependent Knowledge Representation)
Paderborn, Germany
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
An Open Platform for Standardisation: WWW
by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany
(see abstract)
Offene Standards im Internet (Open Standards in the Internet)
by Felix Sasaki , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
Zentrums für Medien und Interaktivität, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Gießen, Germany
Relevant technology areas: Web of Services and Web Design and Applications .
W3C und W3C World Offices (W3C and W3C World Offices)
by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
Deutschland und China - Innovationspartner in der Informationstechnologie
(Germany and China - an Innovative Partnership in Information Technology)
Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany
(see abstract)
Barrierefreiheit in Rich Internet Applications (Accessibility in Rich Internet Applications)
by Shadi Abou-Zahra , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
W3C-Tag 2007
(W3C-Day 2007)
Berlin, Germany
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
Jahresbericht des Deutsch-Österreichischen W3C-Büros (W3C.DE/AT Annual Office Report)
by Thomas Tikwinski , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
W3C Tag 2007
(W3C Day 2007)
Berlin, Germany
(see abstract)
Open Standards Rich Internet Applications
by Steven Pemberton , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
W3C-Tag 2007 - Rich Internet Applications
(W3C Day 2007 - Rich Internet Applications)
Berlin, Germany
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
Wege zum Semantischen Web (Ways to the Semantic Web)
by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
4. Kongress Semantic Web und Wissenstechnologien
Darmstadt, Germany
Wege zum Semantischen Web (Ways to the Semantic Web)
by Klaus Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office
ISOC German Chapter Mitgliederversammlung
Frankfurt, Germany
(see abstract)
What do they think they are doing? When Usability and Security Meet on the Web
by Thomas Roessler , in cooperation with the Hungary Office
Magyarországi Web Konferencia 2007
(Hungarian Web Conference 2007)
Budapest, Hungary
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
A W3C és a mobil Web (W3C and Mobile Web)
by Máté Pataki and Éva Megyaszai
Magyarországi Web Konferencia 2007
(Webconference in Hungary 2007)
Budapest, Hungary
Relevant technology area: Web of Devices .
Introduction to the Semantic Web (tutorial)
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the India Office
International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries
Bangalore, India
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
(see abstract)
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the India Office
International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries
Bangalore, India
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
by Daniel Dardailler , in cooperation with the Israel Office
MOBILIZING THE WEB - IMA TECH CONFERENCE
Tel Aviv, Israel
Relevant technology area: Web of Devices .
W3C/WAI: la cultura dell' accessibilità (W3C/WAI: the culture of accessibility)
Accesso libero perché nessuno resti escluso
(Free access, so noboby will be excluded)
Roma, Italy
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
Il W3C e la cultura dell' accessibilità (W3C and the culture of accessibility)
Web senza barriere. Il passato, il presente e il futuro dell'accessibilità
(No barriers in the Web. Past, present and future of accessibility)
Roma, Italy
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
(see abstract)
Costruire un' ontologia: perché e come farlo (Building an ontology: why and how) (tutorial)
Knowledge Management University
Olbia, Italy
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
(see abstract)
The Web is more a "social" creation than a technical one...
Milano, Italy
Relevant technology areas: Web Design and Applications and Semantic Web .
(see abstract)
Knowledge creation: integrazione di HTML e Semantic Web ( Knowledge creation: integrating HTML and Semantic Web)
The 12th KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FORUM
Milano, Italy
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
(see abstract)
Le nuove linee guida internazionali per l'accessibilità del Web (New Web accessibility international guidelines)
L’evoluzione dell’accessibilità informatica
(Evolution of accessibility)
Venezia, Italy
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
(see abstract)
Taking Action as an AC Representative
by Kangchan Lee
W3C 대한민국 회원사 워크샵
(W3C Korean Members Workshop)
Busan, Korea
W3C 표준화 동향 (The Trends of W3C Standardization)
by Kangchan Lee
e-Biz 표준화 컨퍼런스
(e-Biz Standardization Conference)
Seoul, Korea
Hvor er weben på vei? (The web and where it is moving)
by Olle Olsson
Software Innovation Annual Conference 2007
Lisboa, Portugal
by Daniel Dardailler , in cooperation with the Southern Africa Office
W3C Southern Africa Office Opening
Pretoria, South Africa
by Stéphane Boyera , in cooperation with the Southern Africa Office
Southern Africa Office Opening
Pretoria, South Africa
Relevant technology area: Web of Devices .
W3C: Open Web Standards and eGovernment
by Daniel Dardailler , in cooperation with the Spain Office
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment
Gijón, Spain
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
(see abstract)
Citizens' needs and Government's solutions: a dialogue on the Web (panel)
by Mauro Nunez , in cooperation with the Spain Office
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment
Gijón, Spain
Interaction between Web Standards and e-Government (panel)
by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Spain Office
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment
Gijón, Spain
W3C technologies for information dissemination and interaction
by Steven Pemberton , in cooperation with the Spain Office
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment
Gijón, Spain
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
Aquiring, Archiving and Retrieving knowledge: the Semantic Web (panel)
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment
Gijón, Spain
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
The offer and promises of Semantic Web
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the Spain Office
European W3C Symposium on eGovernment
Gijón, Spain
La Web de los Servicios y los Datos (The Web of Services and Data)
III Congreso Nacional de BPMS (Business Process Management Systems)
(III National Conference on BPMS (Business Process Management Systems))
Madrid, Spain
Relevant technology areas: Web of Services and Semantic Web .
Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)
Creación de sitios Web mediante Hojas de Estilo. Usabilidad y Accesibilidad
(Creating Web sites using StyleSheets. Usability and Accessibility)
Mieres, Spain
Accesibilidad y estándares Web
by Jesús García
USID07 4ª Jornada de Usabilidad en Sistemas de Información Digital
Barcelona, Spain
Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .
La Administración Electrónica y la Web: una historia de amor? (eGovernment and the Web: an ongoing love story?)
Día W3C en España 2007
(W3C Day in Spain 2007)
Madrid, Spain
How to make the most out of eGovernment
“Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference
Madrid, Spain
(see abstract)
Semantic Web: a Short Introduction
by Ivan Herman , in cooperation with the Spain Office
“Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG Conference
Madrid, Spain
Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .
(see abstract)
by Encarnación Quesada Ruiz , in cooperation with the Spain Office
Madrid, Spain
El W3C en el desarrollo de la Web (W3C in the the Development of the Web) (panel)
II Jornadas de Ingeniería Informática en Asturias
(II Day on Engineering in Computer Science in Asturias)
Gijón, Spain
Öppenhet och innovation -- standarder (Opnenness and Innovation -- standards) (panel)
by Olle Olsson
Utsikt 2007
(Perspectives 1007)
Stockholm, Sweden
Informationsstandarder - mervärde eller förutsättning (Information Standards -- added-value or precondition)
by Olle Olsson
Workshop Informationsstandarder och rättslig informationsförsörjning
(Workshop Information standards and Provisioning of Legal Information)
Stockholm, Sweden
(see abstract)
Mot web 2.0, och bortom (To Web 2.0 and beyond)
by Olle Olsson
TelekomDagarna
(The Telecom Days)
Stockholm, Sweden
Den mobila webben (The Mobile Web)
by Olle Olsson
Internet i mobilen
(Internet in the mobile phone)
Stockholm, Sweden
The evolution of the Web to Web 2.0
by Michael Wilson , in cooperation with the United Kingdom and Ireland Office
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