World Wide Web Consortium Opens China Office

Short piece out of Campus Technology:

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards-setting organization for Web technology integration, has opened up an office in Beijing to encourage Chinese technology experts to join in the process of developing Web standards. The office will be based at the Advanced Computing Technologies School of Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang University in Beijing. Steve Bratt, chief executive officer of W3C, along with representatives of Chinese industries and research institutes, will inaugurate the office at a ceremony on April 27. W3C officials said they believe it is important that the Web industry in China use international standards and actively participate in developing them. “To achieve its goal for the full potential for the Web, W3C needs Chinese expertise,” said an official from the consortium. “By opening its mainland China office, W3C actively engages the Chinese industrial and academic communities in the development of international Web standards.”