W3C to work on driving growth of web in Indian languages:Pilot

MoS inaugurates W3C India office

PTI | September 16, 2011



Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot today said various initiatives undertaken by the Indian office of US-based international standards body W3C will work on accelerating the growth of web in Indian languages.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards/best practices/recommendations to ensure seamless web access to all. Its vision is to achieve "Web for Everyone and Web on Everything".

W3C works in tandem with other standards making bodies such as UNICODE, IETF, ICANN, ISO and ITU at the international level and has 19 offices globally.

"India has a diverse country with 22 constitutionally recognised languages and many more dialects. The engagement with W3C will help in building all the required standards to facilitate information access on world wide web regardless of languages, location, age and income," Pilot told reporters here.

He was speaking at the inauguration of W3C's India Office here.

W3C India Office is functioning under the aegis of Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme of the Department of Information Technology.

The objective of W3C India office is to promote adoption of W3C recommendations among developers, application builders, standardisation bodies and policymakers.
 

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