The 2008-06-02 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Launches Group to Help Bridge the Digital Divide
As part of the growing set of W3C initiatives related to social
development, W3C invites participation in the new Mobile Web for
Development (MW4D) interest Group, chartered to explore the
potential of mobile technology to help bridge the digital divide.
"We need to solve important challenges, such as lack of standards in
end-user devices, network constraints, service cost, issues of
literacy, and an understanding of the real information needs of
rural communities," said Ken Banks, kiwanja.net, who Chairs the
group. "To do so requires an multidisciplinary approach, a step we
take through the creation of this new group." Read more in the press
release. This launch is part of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI),
which aims to identify and resolve challenges and issues of
accessing the Web when on the move. This work takes place under the
auspices of the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme
(FP7), part of the Digital World Forum project.
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/mw4dig-pressrelease
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
http://digitalworld.ercim.org/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C
Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides
guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the
nine Advisory Board participants are Jean-François Abramatic (ILOG),
Ann Bassetti (The Boeing Company), Jim Bell (HP), Don Deutsch
(Oracle), Eduardo Gutentag (Sun Microsystems), Steve Holbrook (IBM),
Ken Laskey (MITRE), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Arun Ranganathan
(Mozilla Foundation). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory
Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.
Last Call: XHTML Access Module
The XHTML 2 Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft
of "XHTML Access Module." This document is intended to help make
XHTML-family markup languages more effective at supporting the needs
of the accessibility community. It does so by providing a generic
mechanism for defining the relationship between document components
and well-known accessibility taxonomies. Comments are welcome
through 16 June. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xhtml-access-20080526/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Semantic Desktop in KDE 4.0 on Linux by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/semantic_desktop_in_kde_40_on.html
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development, 2-3 June
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 2 June, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
Better Use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso presents at W3C
Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development.
* 2 June, Västerås, Sweden: Framtidssäkra eFörvaltningen. Olle
Olsson participates in a panel at Offentliga Rummet 2008.
* 4 June, Brussels, Belgium: International Perspective. Judy
Brewer participates in a panel at Open conference on the Results
from Phase I of Standards Mandate 376: Public Procurement of
Accessible ICT in Europe.
* 4 June, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Towards eGovernment 2.0 through
better use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso presents at W3C Brazil
Office Public Launch.
* 4 June, Sao Paolo, Brazil: W3C - Web Open Standards. Daniel
Dardailler presents at W3C Brazil Office Launch event .
* 10 June, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Web Accessibility: People with
Disabilities and Elderly Citizens. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at
Web Sin Barreras.
* 11 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Color for the Global Web. Molly E
Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 12 June, Nashville, TN, USA: Designing for Today's Browsers.
Molly E Holzschlag presents at Voices That Matter.
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web
of linked data.
* 19 June, Nancy, France: États des lieux du Web sémantique. Ivan
Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones
d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Tokyo, Japan: Update on W3C/WAI Guidelines including
WCAG 2.0. Judy Brewer presents at Open Seminar of Information
Accessibility.
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at 2nd NGMN Industry
Conference 2008.
* 16 August, Honolulu, HI, USA: Hot and Spicy Style with CSS.
Molly E Holzschlag gives a tutorial at Hot and Spicy Style with
CSS.
* 20 August, New York, USA: Multimodal Standards and Applications.
Deborah Dahl, Ingmar Kliche, Raj Tumuluri present at SpeechTEK.
* 17 October, Poznan, Poland: The Policy-Aware Web meets Virtual
Goods. Renato Iannella gives a keynote at 6th International
Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business
Models for Virtual Goods.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
* More talks...
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