- From: Marie-Claire Forgue <mcf@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:02:30 +0200
- To: w3c-news@w3.org
Today, W3C announces the launch later this month of its newest office in
Mainland China. The opening of the W3C Mainland China Office marks the
beginning of significant efforts to encourage the participation of
industrial and research interests in Mainland China in W3C
standardization efforts. For more information, please contact Janet
Daly, +1 617 253 5884 <janet@w3.org> or the W3C Communications Team
representative in your region.
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World Wide Web Consortium Launches Office in Mainland China
W3C Invites Technical Experts of a Rapidly Growing Economy to Join Web
Standardization Activities
Web resources:
This Press release
In English: http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease.html.en
In French: http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease.html.fr
In Japanese: http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease.html.ja
In Simplified Chinese:
http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease.html.zh-hans
The W3C China Office: http://www.chinaw3c.org/
W3C China Office Event Program: http://www.chinaw3c.org/schedule.en.htm
About W3C Offices: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.w3.org/ -- 4 April 2006 -- The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) announces the launch of its China Office on 27 April 2006. W3C,
through its newest Office, invites experts in China to join the
international project of developing Web standards at W3C. The Office is
based at the Advanced Computing Technologies, School of Computer Science
& Engineering of Beihang University in Beijing, China.
An opening ceremony will mark the start of two days of presentations and
panels (27-28 April 2006 at the Ruxin Conference Center of Beihang
University in Beijing). Among those attending the opening ceremony are
Dr. Steve Bratt, CEO of W3C, and representatives of leading industries
and research institutes in China. Representatives from Chinese industry
and academia will speak and the W3C staff will present work on the W3C
Mobile Web Initiative, the Internationalization Activity, the Rich Web
Client Activity, the Semantic Web Activity, and the Voice Browser
Activity. The list of speakers at the event include:
* Kazuyuki Ashimura, Team Contact for the Voice Browser Working Group
* Dr. Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Executive Officer
* Dr. Marie-Claire Forgue, Head of W3C European Communications
* Dr. Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
* Prof. Jinpeng Huai, Manager of the W3C China Office
* Richard Ishida, Internationalization Activity Lead
* Dean Jackson, Rich Web Client Activity Lead
* Prof. Vincent Shen, Manager of the W3C Hong Kong Office
* Prof Zhongzhi Shi, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese
Academy of Sciences
* Dr. Xu Want, CEO of Capinfo Company Limited
China’s IT Industry Exhibiting Significant Growth
In recent years, China has been experiencing significant growth in the
information technology (IT) industry at close to 20% yearly. China’s IT
industry is attracting both domestic and foreign customers, which led to
the founding of several renowned IT enterprises: Lenovo, Langchao,
UFIDA, Baidu, etc. The opening of China’s markets encourages more
multinational corporations to set up local subsidiaries. China is
developing technologies in Web services, Grid computing, e-commerce,
e-government, CRM, networking, telecommunications, mobile Internet and
mobile Web, robotics, embedded software, etc. It holds tremendous
promise as an IT leader in Asia.
With demands from both internal and international markets, it is
important that the Web industry in China use international standards,
and actively participate in developing them. Feedback on issues like
internationalization and mobile Web usage in this enormous market need
to be relayed back to international standardization work. To achieve its
goal of the full potential for the Web, W3C needs Chinese expertise. By
opening its Mainland China Office, W3C actively engages the Chinese
industrial and academic communities in the development of international
Web standards.
School of Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang University
Beihang University is a respected university in China with more than 50
years' history. Beihang University has actively and intensively
developed its international academic exchange and collaboration programs.
The School of Computer Science and Engineering of Beihang University
ranks among the top computer science schools in China with more than 130
full-time faculty members. The School hosts a national key laboratory, a
key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, and two key laboratories of
Beijing city. It received numerous national prizes, and has an extensive
record of publishing in international journals. Its staff and students
are participating in 138 external research projects with a total
research funding in 2005 exceeding RMB150 million (around 15M€ or 18M$).
Contact Americas, Australia --
Janet Daly, <janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Europe, Africa and Middle East --
Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94 or +33.676.86.33.41
Contact Asia --
Yasuyuki Hirakawa <chibao@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170
About W3C Offices
As its Members work to realize the full potential of the Web, W3C
collaborates with regional organizations wishing to further W3C’s
mission. The W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local
languages, help broaden W3C’s geographical base, and encourage
international participation in W3C Activities. Including the new Office
in Mainland China, W3C currently has 16 Offices in Australia, the
Benelux countries, Mainland China, Germany and Austria, Finland, Greece,
Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Korea, Morocco, Spain, Sweden,
and the United Kingdom and Ireland.
About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where
Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to
develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the
creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term
growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the
Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European
Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM)
headquartered in France, Keio University in Japan, and has additional
Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/
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