W3C Southern Africa Office
W3C Southern Africa Office
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding. The Southern Africa W3C Office (W3C-SA) is the national contact point for W3C activities in Southern Africa, as defined by the UN and comprising of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland. It is located in Pretoria.
2008-05-20: As was reported before the Israel W3C Office was moved to the Israel Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-IL). The official opening of the new Office will take place on Sunday may 25th. In the event there will be talks by Ori Idan, W3C Israel Office manager, Rimon Levy, Head of ISOC-IL, and Daniel Dardailler, W3C International Relations and Offices Director.
On 10 February 1998, W3C published Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. W3C would like to thank the dedicated communities -- including people who have participated in W3C’ XML groups and mailing lists, the SGML community, and xml-dev -- whose efforts have created a successful family of technologies based on the solid XML 1.0 foundation.
To celebrate ten years of XML, W3C invites you to send a greeting and tell us about an XML-related blog or article.
The year 2008 sees the 10th consecutive World Wide Web Applications Conference. To highlight this milestone anniversary, the event will be celebrated in two places. The programme will kick-off in Cape Town and then continues the week after in Nairobi - reinforcing the Conference’s engagement with African Web developments as a whole.
Visit the WWW ZA 2008 website for further details.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is proud to announce the launch of its first W3C Office in South America: the W3C Brazil Office, hosted by the NIC.br (Brazilian Network Information Center) institute, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the Portuguese-speaking community through this Office. Moreover, the current IT landscape in Brazil aligns with exciting current trends at W3C, such as mobile Web, Web applications, and video on the Web.
Approximately 40 million Brazilians have Internet access, the highest number of Internet users of any country in Latin America. Telecommunications Industry News reported in October 2007 that the number of wireless users in Brazil exceeds 112 million. Brazilian companies compete effectively in a global market, and have delivered world class solutions in areas of mobile banking, open-source technology, Web accessibility, wireless Internet access, games industry, e-government solutions and HD digital television.
Brazil's strength in the Internet and mobile sectors will also help the country narrow the digital divide currently faced by a portion of its population.
Read the full press release about Opening the W3C Brazilian Office
The staff of the Southern Africa Office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are in the process of developing an effective strategy to establish the Southern African office, promote W3C guidelines and recommendations, and to facilitate the participation of the Southern African region in the W3C working groups.
View the presentation on our proposed strategy.
The Southern Africa Office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was launched at a function held at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Convention Centre in Pretoria on 14 May 2007. The day was divided into three sessions, with the opening ceremony taking place in the morning followed by two workshop sessions in the afternoon.
The following presentations presented at the launch are available online:
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