The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international community with a core objective of developing web standards, has set up an office in India.
This office was inaugurated by India’s Minister of State for Communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, and it hopes to play an active role in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry.
Explaining the need for a W3C office in India, Sachin Pilot said:
Activities initiated by W3C India office will go a long way in accelerating the growth of web in Indian languages. It will also facilitate information access on World Wide Web regardless of languages, location, ability, generation, age, and income.
Previously, the W3C had stated that one of its goals in 2011 was to increase global participation, with a specific focus towards China and India. Also keeping India’s linguistic diversity in mind, it had announced that implementing W3C standards for a seamless web experience across platforms in the country would be a challenging task.
With this new office, the consortium can now help address local challenges in the global context, as seen with the launch of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) website in 22 Indian languages.
It can also spread awareness about the W3C recommendations among developers, application builders, standardization bodies, and policy makers.
Earlier this week, Chinese search giant Baidu also joined World Wide Web Consortium. It had announced that it would be glad to share its experience with Box Computing and ensure the long-term growth of the Web, by working with the consortium on several core Web standards and critical issues related to China such as multilingual support.
[via IBNLive.com]
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