World Wide Web Consortium to meet in Delhi on May 6-7

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international body which develops standards to ensure web accessibility to all, will hold its conference in New Delhi on May 6-7 during which it will also launch its India office.

The W3C develops interoperable technologies for specifications, guidelines, software, and tools to lead the web to its full potential. It works in tandem with other standards making bodies such as UNICODE, IETF, ICANN, WI PO and ISO, especially in the areas related to web technologies and data interchange through it.

The W3C India Office is being launched to promote and accelerate participation from India in the W3C standards. The office has been established under the aegis of Technology Development for Indian Languages Programme. The futuristic and the very long-term goal is to enable all W3C standards with 22 Indian languages so that a seamless web can be achieved for every citizen. The office will work in tandem with all major national regulatory standards and industry associations like TRAI, BIS, NASSCOM, MAIT and others, an official press release said.

The technical sessions during the two-day conference will cover topics such as web architecture, web accessibility issues such as styling, mobile web, human machine interfaces, semantic web, and so on.

Details about the event are available on the W3C India Office website  and theconference website.

According to the release, all academic and R&D institutions (Computer Science, ICT & Electronics & Communication Engineering & Linguistics/ Language), hardware and software industry language technology researchers and other interested groups may participate in these sessions and present their work.

Requests for making a presentation or attending the conference can be uploaded on the website of W3C India. No registration fee is required for attending the conference, the release added.

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