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.
W3C India Office
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.
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 .
Current
W3C India Activities:
W3C India currently focused with the following domains:
Internationalization
Mobile Web
E-publishing
Web Accessibility
Voice Browser
Web Architecture and Styling
E-Governance
Semantic Web
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