World Wide Web Consortium meet to be held in New Delhi

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The World-Wide Web: Technology, Standards and Internationalization Conference, will be held in New Delhi on May 6-7, 2010.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.

W3C is an international standards body, which develops recommendations/ standards to ensure web accessibility to all, i.e. web should be ubiquitously accessible from all devices and all platforms and by persons with special abilities. W3C works in tandem with other standards making bodies such as UNICODE, IETF, ICANN, WIPO and ISO, COAI especially in the areas related to web technologies and data interchange through it.

W3C India Office has been established at Deptt. Of Information Technology, Govt. of India under the aegis of Technology Development for Indian Languages. The futuristic and the very long term goal are to enable all W3C standards with 22 Indian languages so that we can achieve seamless web for every citizen. The W3C India office will work in tandem with all major National Regulatory standards and Industry association like TRAI, BIS, NASSCOM, MAIT and others.

W3C India Office is being launched during this conference to promote and accelerate participation from India in the W3C standards. The technical sessions would cover web architecture, web accessibility issues such as Styling, Mobile Web, human machine interfaces, Semantic web, etc. For details, visit http://www.w3cindia.in.

All academic and R&D institutions (Engineering & Linguistics/ Language), hardware and software industry language technology researchers and other interested groups are requested to participate in the endeavour and present their work in these areas.