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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and W3C India Office

1.      World Wide Web consortium (W3C) [http://www.w3.org]

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international Standards Body which develops Standards / Best Practices / recommendations to ensure seamless web access to all. The Vision of W3C is to achieve “Web for Everyone and Web on Everything.” W3C works in tandem with others standards making bodies such as UNICODE, IETF, ICANN, ISO, and ITU at the international level. 

W3C has so far published W3C has so far published about 220 standards for web technology and working in the future web standards.

2.         W3C India Office [http://www.w3cindia.in]

World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C) India Office is functioning under the aegis of TDIL Programme, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, with the objective of promotion and proliferation of W3C standards for seamless web access.

TDIL Programme is engaging itself actively since 2006 with the all the stakeholders in the country to work towards internationalization of W3C Recommendations. The futuristic and the very long term goal is to enable all W3C Recommendations with 22 Indian languages so that we can achieve seamless web for every Indian.

The objective of W3C India office is to promote adoption of W3C recommendations among developers, application builders, and standards setters, and to encourage inclusion of stakeholder organizations in the creation of future recommendations.

3.      Importance of W3C Office in India

India has unique linguistic diversity having 22 constitutionally recognized languages and 11 scripts and it is similar to European Union. Therefore implementation of W3C standards in Indian languages is a gigantic task and requires involvement all stake holders ranging from ICT industry, academia and users.

E-Governance in India has steadily evolved from computerization of Government Departments to initiatives that encapsulate the finer points of Governance, such as citizen centricity, service orientation and transparency.  The E-Governance programme in India has been accelerated through various Mission Mode Projects (MMP), rapid roll-out of Common Service Centres (CSC)s and creation of  Information Technology Backbone (State Wide Area Network.   Most of the services under E-Governance programme would be web based either through desktop and mobile environment. Considering the multilingual and multi-script diversity in India [22 constitutionally recognized languages and 11 scripts] thus it is essential that, e-Governance applications need to be implemented with language framework and interface.

Thus Internationalization and more specifically Indianization of E-Governance Applications is a crucial part in implementation and deployment seamless across platform and devices.

W3C India is the nodal agency of Web standardization in India in collaboration with industry, academia.

3.         Current W3C India Activities:

W3C India currently focused with the following domains:

1.       Internationalization

2.       Mobile Web

3.        E-publishing

4.      Web Accessibility

5.      Voice Browser

6.      Web Architecture and Styling

7.        E-Governance

8.       Semantic Web