W3C Welcomes Community Discussion at WWW2008 Track

Business Wire, March 18, 2008

Web Standards in China Featured at W3C Track in Beijing

http://www.w3.org/ -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) invites WWW2008 conference attendees to discuss pressing Web issues at the W3C Track in Beijing, China. W3C Member and Staff representatives will present nearly 25 topics and invite discussion over the course of two days, 23-24 April. In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, will give a keynote titled "The Future of Web Applications" on Thursday, 24 April. A press conference with Tim Berners-Lee is scheduled on Wednesday 23 April at the Beijing International Convention Center; see the W3C track page for more details.

The track includes a number of sessions about Internet use in China as part of W3C's mission to create international standards that also meet regional needs. These sessions are:

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