The World Wide Web Consortium
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. The World Wide Web Consortium achieves its mission by bringing diverse stake-holders together, under a clear and effective consensus-based process to develop high-quality standards based on contributions from the W3C Members, staff, and the community at large.
W3C standards define an Open Web Platform for application development that has the unprecedented potential to enable developers to build rich interactive experiences, powered by vast data stores that are available on any device. Although the boundaries of the platform continue to evolve, industry leaders speak nearly in unison about how HTML5 will be the cornerstone for this platform. W3C develops these technical specifications and guidelines through a process designed to maximize consensus about the content of a technical report, to ensure high technical and editorial quality, and to earn endorsement by W3C and the broader community.
The World Wide Web Consortium
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WWW Consortium
1994
WWW Consortium
Source: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/facts">The World Wide Web Consortium</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium">Wikipedia</a>
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English
Organization
World Wide Web, Web, Internet, Standards, Open Web, HTML5
International
Open Standards & Technology Development
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">OpenStand is a movement dedicated to promoting a proven set of principles that establish The Modern Paradigm for Standards. Through the principles, it encourages the development of market driven standards that are global and open - enabling standards without borders and driving innovation for the benefit of humanity.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The OpenStand principles are based on the effective and efficient standardization processes that have made the Internet and Web the premiere platforms for innovation and borderless commerce and are extendable to other technologies. The principles stress voluntary adoption and empower the economies of global markets — fueled by technological innovation — to drive global standards deployment. The result is The Modern Paradigm for Standards.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Since the launch of OpenStand in 2012, hundreds of proponents from industry, civil society, government and academia, as well as individual technologists and innovators have expressed their support of the principles.</span></p>
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OpenStand
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OpenStand
2012
OpenStand
Source: <a href="https://open-stand.org/about-us/">Open Stand</a>
<a href="https://open-stand.org/">OpenStand</a>
Medium: Logo
English
Movement
OpenStand, Market, Innovation, Internet, Web, Standardization, Technology
International