Connecting the Unconnected – W3C Office Launch in Senegal
 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international association with the mission to develop open standards for the web, is inviting the general public to its Senegal Office Launch at eLearning Africa 2009 in Dakar. By launching a new office in Senegal – W3C’s first in West Africa and 17th facility worldwide – the consortium seeks to work with regional web communities to promote W3C technologies in local languages, broaden its geographical base and encourage international participation in its activities. The W3C Senegal office launch is timed to coincide with ‘eLearning Africa 2009,’ Africa’s biggest conference on technology-assisted learning. Click here for registration.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Founded in 1994 by inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, and others, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international association whose member organisations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop open web standards. These standards are published as W3C Recommendations and, since its inception, the W3C has issued more than 110 of them. The goals behind W3C’s activities are to avoid market fragmentation and to ensure “web interoperability”, meaning that the most fundamental web technologies must be compatible with one another and allow both hardware and software used to access the web to work together. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the world wide web.
More at www.w3.org.
As part of the Digital World Forum project (the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme - FP7), W3C and its new Senegal team aim to explore how to use ICTs to enhance services, such as health, education, business and government, in order to sustain development of rural communities and assist underprivileged populations. Tim Berners-Lee, co-founder and leader of the consortium since its inception 15 years ago, will contribute to the launch with a video message. Chair of the event, Alex Corenthin (ESP, UCAD, ISOC) will welcome keynote speakers, including Daniel Dardailler, who will provide an overview of W3C activities and goals, and Mouhament Diop, CEO of Kheweul.com, who will comment on the web in Senegal. Discussions about the future of the web will be the highlight of the launch before the event ends with a cocktail reception.
The launch takes place on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009, from 15:00 to 18:30 at the eLearning Africa 2009 conference, Hotel Le Méridien President in Dakar.
For more information please visit: http://www.w3.org/2009/05/sn-launch.html.
May 7, 2009
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