W3C Senegal Office Launch - May 27th, 2009 - Dakar
Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
Associate Chair Europe , Director Intl Relations, W3C
Also working for the Web Foundation.
These slides at http://www.w3.org/2009/05/dd-sn.html
Not just a technical problem.
A lot of debates nowadays for a common definition of Open Standards(IGF, EC, etc)
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.
W3C works with thousands of engineers using the Web and the Internet as a platform.
Many using Semantic Web technologies on the server, and accessible to participants with disabilities.
Like IETF, our process is one of our specification (bootstrap principle)
Public data is data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or privilege limitations (could be Your Data as well..)