The mission of W3C Offices can be summarized as follows: "To promote adoption of W3C recommendations among developers, application builders, and standards setters, and to encourage inclusion of stakeholder organizations in the creation of future recommendations by joining W3C." http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/ 2008-10-08 2008-10-08: The OPAALS 2008 conference on Digital Ecosystems, co-organised by the W3C Finnish Office, takes place 7-8 October at Tampere, Finland. W3C Associate Chairman, Daniel Dardailler, gives a keynote "Web Open Standards and Digital Ecosystems". In addition, Manager of the W3C Finnish Office, Ossi Nykänen, gives a tutorial "W3C Semantic Web technologies for the OKS". http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#oct10a 2008-10-08 2008-10-08: The W3C Greece Office is organizing a booth at the 9 th International HL7 Interoperability Conference 2008 - IHIC 2008. Office Manager Evangelos Markatos will also present a talk entitled "An Open Platform for Standardisation: WWW". http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#oct10 2008-10-08 2008-09-18: W3C Brazil Office will be present at RioInfo 2008, conference and exhibition to be held in Rio de Janeiro from September 30 to October 2. It will be the sixth editon of RioInfo, the major event on IT in the State of Rio de Janeiro. It aims to be an open space to present and exchange new ideas and experience among entrepreneurs, business people and academics and to present new market opportunities. NIC.br, the host institution of the W3C Brazil Office, is sponsoring the event. W3C Brazil Office will have a booth inside the NIC.br exhibition area and is also supporting the keynote speaker activity. The W3C special guest, Klaus Birkenbihl, coordinator of W3C World Offices will give the keynote talk about "On the Way to the Semantic Web", on October, 2nd. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#sep18 2008-09-18 2008-09-05: The event on "Video on the Web 2008: When IPTV Met Web" will be held by the W3C Korea Office in Seoul on September 25th - 26th. Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C domain leader of the Interaction Domain will talk about the "W3C Video in the Web" Activity. Issues related to Video on the Web and IPTV will be discussed in the event. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#sep05b 2008-09-05 2008-09-05: The W3C Germany and Austria Office holds its annual "W3C-Tag" on September 24th in Berlin during the Xinnovations. Topic for this year will be the "Corporate Semantic Web". Though the term "Corporate Semantic Web" is catching on these days implementations are rather rare. The hurdles are significant: new technologies as well a new thinking is required, existing data have to be prepared. To convincing the management of the benefits may also be not easy. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#sep05a 2008-09-05 2008-09-05: Since the W3C Brazil Office public launch on June 4th 2008 a growing interest in W3C was expressed by some local organizations. The Office invites everybody interested in W3C to its "First Multistakeholder Forum on One Web". This Forum on the subject "One Web" will take place in Sao Paulo on September 30. with the goal to: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#sep05 2008-09-05 2008-08-27: W3C welcomes Fons Kuijk as new manager of the W3C Benelux Office. Fons holds a PhD on architectures for interactive raster graphics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Astrophysics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA). From 2000 to 2003 he worked as advisor of the research group Computer Graphics at Philips Research, Eindhoven. 2001 he launched the CWI spin-off EPICTOID (later CharToon Software). Today he is doing research as member of the Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures group at CWI. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#aug27 2008-08-27 2008-08-11: According to the tradition, the W3C Spain Office, and the Fundación CTIC organize the annual edition of Fundamentos Web, event promoted by the Gobierno del Principado de Asturias. The event will take place in the Feria Internacional de Muestras de Asturias ( FIDMA ) at the Palacio de Congresos on October 28th - 29th. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#aug11 2008-08-11 2008-06-18: W3C Korea Office holds its members workshop today in Seoul, Korea. Current members and interested companies will particiapte, and discuss on the W3C related issues. Especially, Daniel Dardailler and Charles McCathieNevile also give a talks on "W3C and Open Standards" and "W3C Web API WG activity" for Korean members. See the Web site. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#jun18 2008-06-18 2008-06-16: Together with the Web Standards Group and Web Directions South the W3C Office Australia organized - or contributed to - a series of events in Australia in May. These events had a total of over 450 participants. Richard Ishida gave a "Tutorial on designing for Internationalisation" and José Manuel Alonso talked about the e-Government Activity of W3C and demonstrated it’s value. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#jun16 2008-06-16 2008-05-20: As was reported before the Israel W3C Office was moved to the Israel Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-IL). The official opening of the new Office will take place on Sunday may 25th. In the event there will be talks by Ori Idan, W3C Israel Office manager, Rimon Levy, Head of ISOC-IL, and Daniel Dardailler, W3C International Relations and Offices Director. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#may20a 2008-05-20 2008-05-20: W3C will launch its Brazil Office on June 4th, 2008. José Manuel Alonso, W3C eGovernment Activity Lead, W3C/CTIC, Daniel Dardailler, International Relations and Offices Director, W3C Stéphane Boyera, W3C Mobile Web for Development Lead, and Demi Getschko, president, NIC.br will be speaking. The launch is part of the the Digital World Forum project (European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme - FP7) which explores how to take advantage of the new paradigm of low-cost technologies in broadband infrastructure and devices to bridge the digital divide and connect the unconnected. This event is integrated to the 14th CONIP e-Gov Conference to be held in São Paulo, from 2 to 5 of June, under the theme "Government 2.0". http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#may20 2008-05-20 2008-05-09: WWW2008 is over and can be considered as a success. The International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2) and Beihang University, the host of W3C China Office, held the 17th International World Wide Web Conference from April 21st to 25th, in Beijing, China. The W3C China Office, as the one of the most important internationalized departments in Beihang University, took the main responsibility of local organizing and international cooperation of WWW2008. Already in 2005, the new-founded W3C China Office started to get involved in the bidding for WWW2008. On WWW2006, Beihang University finally won the bidding, and W3C China Office gradually devoted to the preparation work for WWW2008. In addition, the W3C China Office also helped the W3C Keio Team to organize the W3C AC meeting in Beijing that took place from April 20st to 22nd. W3C would like to thank the W3C China Office for the excellent work in the context of these two events. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#may09 2008-05-09 2008-05-07: The W3C Spain Office invites members and the community to the W3C day in Spain. The event will take place in Madrid, Spain on May 27. This event has been organized by CTIC Foundation, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and W3C Spain Office. The goal of this one-day conference is to discuss about the present and future of the Web, and share experiences from the industry regarding web standards. There are three sessions: Web for Everyone, Web on Everything and Knowledge Base, covering topics like Accessibility, Device Independency, Mobile Web and Semantic Web. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#may07 2008-05-07 2008-05-05: In order to investigate opportunities for more co-operation Anqi Li from the China W3C Office and W3C Offices Coordinator Klaus Birkenbihl visited the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on April 28th. It is part of the Computer Network Information Center (CNIC) which is is a subsidiary research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). CNNIC is the institution that beside some other Internet related work administers the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) ".cn" which soon will be the largest ccTLD in the world. Among other topics the role of the Domain Name System(DNS), internationalization of domain names, Internet Keywords (a naming system administered by CNNIC) where discussed. Mutual participation and exchange of speakers for events was identified as an option for future cooperation. (Photo credit: CNNIC) http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/News/2008#may05 2008-05-05