W3C India organized a meeting with Indian E-publishing stakeholders involving government, academia and industry having the objective to elucidate the e-publishing requirement in Indian Languages. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Swaran Lata Country Manager, W3C India.

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W3C India office (www.w3cindia.in/) organized a Brain Storming meeting with Semantic Web experts on 16th March, 2012 at New Delhi .

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W3C India office (www.w3cindia.in/) is has organized a series of meetings with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) delegation with the Indian ICT Industry , academic institutes and the companies incubated in the Web related area. The goal of these meeting was to reach out to all the stakeholders of W3C standards [Areas: Web accessibility, Mobile Web, Web application development, Internationalization of Web, Web services technologies including the cloud based services, Speech technology, etc.] and enhance their involvement in the evolution of these standards.

W3C India office has to engage with these stakeholders for active dialogue for possible membership of W3C as affiliate members in their specific area of interest and also as institutional member for the organization to remain ahead in the ICT global competitive world. The innovation labs of Multinational and Indian companies also need to be brought on-board for meaningful participation to happen from India.

Three meetings has been organized as follows:

• 1. March 30, 2011 [6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m] at IIIT Hyderabad.
• 2. April 4 and 5th, 2011 [11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.] at Dept of Information Technology, 6 CGO Complex, New Delhi.

Report of the meetings..

1. Inaugural address

Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India Office

2. Value of W3C Membership to be on the cutting edge of Global competition in the ICT environment

Mr. Alan Bird, global business development leader, W3C

3. Need to maximise participation of Indian ICT Industry in the W3C initiatives

Ms. Marie Claire Forgue, Head of W3C European Communications and Business Development, W3C

4. The Web as a mobile application platform

Dr. Dominique Hazael-Massieux,W3C Mobile Web Initiative Lead

5. Open discussion with Industry and Academia with W3C Team.

6. Dinner

1. Inaugural address

Shri N.Ravi Shanker, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology and Patron, W3C India Office

2. Value of W3C Membership to be on the cutting edge of Global competition in the ICT environment

Mr. Alan Bird, global business development leader, W3C

3. Efforts of W3C India towards evolution, promotion and proliferation of W3C standards

Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India Office

4. Leveraging the Telecommunication centres of excellence for joint efforts towards convergence of Standards

Mr. R.K. Pathak, DDG Industry promotion, Department of Telecommunication, Govt. of India.

5. Role of the regulator in growth of mobile services

Mr.R K Upadhyay,Advisor,Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

6. Status of Mobile Industry in India and associated challenges of standardization

Mr. Pankaj Mahindroo,President,Indian cellular Association

7. Lightning talks by Industry (2 hours session)

7.1 "Standardization of Device Applications in reference to WAC"

Sanjay Diwan (IMI Mobile)

7.2 "Standardisation for supporting languages on phone"

Abhijit Bhattacharjee (Luna Ergonomics)

7.3 "Indian Languages on Mobile"

Vijay Narayanan-Saroja, Nokia Research Center

8. Expectations of Industry - interactive session

1. Inaugural address

Shri N. Ravi Shanker, Joint Secretary, Department of Information Technology and Patron, W3C India Office

2. Value of W3C Membership to be on the cutting edge of Global competition in the ICT environment

Mr. Alan Bird, global business development leader, W3C

3. Efforts of W3C India towards evolution, promotion and proliferation of W3C standards

Ms. Swaran Lata, Country Manager, W3C India Office

4. Leveraging W3C Standard to enhance eGov Reach

Ms. Rama Vedashree,Vice President, NASSCOM

5. CSI Role for Research in support of W3C Initative

Mr. M.D.Agrawal, President, Computer Society of India

6. Lightning talks by Industry (2 hours session)

6.1 Growing the Internet in India - Priorities & Challenges

Venkatesh Hariharan (Google)

6.2 "Intelligent content for policies and procedures"

Ayush Joshi (Ictect,Inc.)

6.3 "Standards to Increase Accessibility in India"

Sanjeev Gupta (Accenture)

6.4 "Compliance to Standards is Key to Interoperability"

Angiah Santhanaswamy (Adobe)

6.5 "Standardization and Implementation Issues"

Deepak Singla (CA Technologies)

7. Expectations of Industry - interactive session