With the presence of the Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Shri Sachin Pilot and W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe the new W3C India Office was launched yesterday.
The launch ceremony and the subsequent conference focused mostly on the use of Web and Web technology to promote India’s development. Key technologies in this context are internationalization, mobile Web, voice Web and WAI. W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe outlined the future of the Web and stressed the importance of having Indian organizations on board. More than 500 participants visited the very successful event. Beside Jeff Jaffe W3C team was
represented by Phil Archer, Klaus Birkenbihl and Richard Ishida at the event.
2010-08-02 Update: A conference report is available now.