W3C Sets Up India Office

The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) India office was inaugurated by Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot.

W3C is engaged in development of common protocols on the web, developing of standards and recommendations for web access. The establishment of new W3C India office space gives it a permanent entity and would play more active and crucial role in proliferation of W3C standards among ICT industry and users to make India truly a knowledge-based society.

"Activities initiated by W3C India office will go a long way in accelerating the growth of web in Indian languages," said Pilot on the occasion. "This step will facilitate information access on world wide web regardless of languages, location, ability, generation age and income," he added. Referring to the recently launched website of centre for development of advanced computing in 22 Indian languages, Pilot said that these initiatives will help address the local challenges in the global context.

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W3C has 19 offices world-wide which deal into promotion, proliferation and adoption of W3C standards and its implementation according to local languages and culture.