W3C Southern Africa Office Opening
Meraka Institute, Pretoria, SA
W3C Associate Chair, Europe
Head of Offices
These slides: http://www.w3.org/2007/05/dd-saopen.htm
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.
A lot of debates nowadays for a common definition of Open
Standards(IGF, EC, etc)
As of last month: 16 offices: CSIRO, CWI, BUAA, DMI, FhG, Forth, HKUST, SZTAKI, CDAC, CNR, HUJI, CTIC, ETRI, EMI, SICS, CCLRC
and Keeping the program under control, human and scalable.
Existing offices creation years + some potential candidates.
1997 | UK |
1998 | Germany, Hong Kong, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden |
1999 | Italy |
2000 | Australia, Israel, Morocco |
2001 | (UK+Ireland, Germany+Austria) |
2002 | Hungary, Finland, Korea |
2003 | Spain |
2004 | |
2005 | India |
2006 | China |
2007 | Southern Africa, Tunisia, Brazil |
2008 | Chile? Russia ? Canada ? |
2009 | Poland ? SoutheastAsia ? WesternAfrica ? |
2010 ?