The World Wide Web Consortium, abbreviated as W3C, is an organization with a two-word vision: One Web. It is among the Supra-governmental organizations that control the Internet, in that, it is responsible for web standards.
Mission:
To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the web.
How does W3C work to achieve Internet Governance?
The W3C is focused to achieve its mission. This consequent to 5 principles which guide its work. These are:
- Making the benefits of the social value of the web, such as human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge, available to all without any discrimination. - "Web for All".
- Enabling a wide web accessibility, i.e. using devices such as Mobile phones, Smart phones, Personal digital assistants, Interactive television systems, kiosks and even certain domestic appliances. - "Web on Everything'.
- Personalizing web experiences; Bringing authors to the web through Blogs (here we are!), wikis, etc;Flourishing market of content... - "Web for Rich Interaction".
- Making the web a giant repository of linked data, at the same time, a giant set of services that exchange information, messages, etc. - "Web of Data and Services".
- Supporting complex interaction among parties around the globe (you and I). - "Web of Trust".
There are many ways the web community can participate in W3C.
Check out: How to participate in W3C.
"The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and inhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community."
J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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