W3C Mobile Web Initiative Sponsors to Reveal Vision in London on 15 November 2005.http://www.w3.org/ -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) and sponsors of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI MWI Malawi (ISO Country code) MWI Message Waiting Indicator MWI Many-Worlds Interpretation (Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics) MWI Ministry of Water and Irrigation MWI Medical Waste Incinerator ) are organizing a morning of presentations related to challenges and opportunities for the mobile Web on Tuesday 15 November 2005. The half-day event will take place at the British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars. The Academy is self-governing and independent. of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA Baf´ta n. 1. A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export. ) in London. "The Mobile Web Initiative's goal is to make browsing the Web from mobile devices a reality," explains Tim Berners-Lee (person) Tim Berners-Lee - The man who invented the World-Wide Web while working at the Center for European Particle Research (CERN). Now Director of the World-Wide Web Consortium. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the Queen's College at Oxford University, England, 1976. , W3C Director and inventor of the Web. "W3C and mobile industry leaders are working together to improve Web content production and access for mobile users and the greater Web." Mobile Web Initiative Aims to Provide a Richer and Easier Web User Experience The rich Web environment is one that users now expect to access from mobile devices as well as the desktop. Yet interoperability and usability problems persist, and mobile Web access still suffers as a result. With the support of international mobile industry leaders, W3C recently launched the Mobile Web Initiative, which aims to use existing standards in documentable ways -- Mobile Web Best Practices (see news item) -- to improve the mobile experience on the Web. Mobile Web Initiative to Hold Its First Outreach Event in Europe This public MWI event will focus on current mobile Web challenges and opportunities. The program opens with a video welcome from Tim Berners-Lee, followed by a presentation on the vision and ambitions for the mobile Web by Dr. Philipp Hoschka, Deputy Director for W3C Europe and W3C's Mobile Web Initiative leader. Mobile Web Initiative sponsors will speak on two panels: "Mobile Web Challenges and Potential" and "Putting the Vision into Practice", chaired respectively by Rotan Hanharan, chief architect at MobileAware, and Daniel Appelquist, senior technology strategist for the Vodafone Group. The content of this half day's talks is to be made available to the public. W3C is organizing this event to further the MWI mission of educating operators, content developers, and handset manufacturers on available options and new developments. Mobile Web Initiative Boasts Strong International Sponsorship The current nineteen MWI sponsors are key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, adaptation providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. They are: Afilias, Argogroup, Bango.net, Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu Software, mTLD, MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. , Opera Software, TIM Italia, RuleSpace, Segala M Test, Sevenval, Vodafone, and Volantis.
Logistics and Contact Information
Date: 15 November 2005
Time: from 8:30 am until 12:30pm
Location: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA),
195 Piccadilly, London - W1J 9LN, UK
To register, press should contact Salli Roskilly at
salli@saffroncoms.com (Tel: +44 (0)1763 208708 --
Mob: +44 07977 573003) or fill out the online registration form.
About W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (W3C-MWI) The mission of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (W3C MWI) is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Through the MWI Sponsorship Program, key players in the mobile production chain, including authoring tool vendors, content providers, adaptation providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators lead the Initiative. MWI participants develop authoring guidelines, checklists and best practices, as well as a database of descriptions that can be used by content authors to adapt their content to a particular device. For more information see http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ About the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL CSAIL Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT)CSAIL Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab ) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics Same as information technology and information systems. The term is more widely used in Europe. and Mathematics (ERCIM ERCIM - European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics. An association of European research organisations promoting cooperative research on key issues in Information Technology. ) headquartered in France and Keio University Keio University (慶應義塾大学 Keiō gijuku daigaku in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology. To date, nearly 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. For more information see http://www.w3.org/ (also available in French and Japanese; see also translations in other languages) |
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