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On the W3C blog today, Seth Dobbs wrote: "Past, present and future: An update on W3C’s Strategic Objectives on the 37th anniversary of the Web proposal" He noted: today’s anniversary of "Information Management: A Proposal" that Tim Berners-Lee wrote on 12 March 1989 prompts me to stop and reflect on the importance of the web, and the key role the World Wide Web Consortium plays in making the web work — for everyone. Through our strategic objectives we are putting emphasis primarily on impact and stakeholder outreach which beget a solidified structure, diversified support, and broaden our footprint. By being more deliberate about measuring our success we anticipate to have an even bigger impact. Given the prevalence of the web, we are striving to both reinforce relationships with existing stakeholders and to establish new relationships that help further our mission. Particular attention is given to our methods for engaging with unserved/underserved regions. #AboutW3C #WebHistory #WebStandards https://lnkd.in/eKU4UmVX

Galloping into the Lunar New Year with W3C! Speed of the horse, sustainability of the standard. With the spirit of the horse — endurance, strength, and forward momentum — we wish our community a fast, energetic, and federated Year of the Horse. Thank you for making the web open and powerful. The best path is the one we pave together. 马到成功！🐎 #ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear 

The W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents will take place online from 25–27 February - only 3 days left to sign up Organized by the World Wide Web Consortium, the workshop brings together the web, voice, and AI communities to explore how smart voice agents can be built on open web technologies and how standards can enable more capable, multimodal, and trustworthy systems. Registration closes on 19 February — *only 3 days left to sign up*. Register to participate and join the discussion. The workshop is free. Full agenda: https://lnkd.in/eZBAyiUs Across three half-day sessions, the workshop will cover: Architectures and interoperability for smart voice and multi-agent systems Trust, governance, and reliability in speech and language technologies Multimodal and accessible voice interaction Real-time and context-aware voice applications, including automotive use cases Session highlights: 25 February: Foundations and interoperability 26 February: Smarter and more inclusive interactions 27 February: Real-time, contextual, and applied voice agents More details: https://lnkd.in/eqYNxxyt

We, at W3C, love the web. Tell us, how did you come to love the web? Love the web? ウェブのこと、好き？ ¿amas la web? Vous aimez le web ? #ShareTheLove #HappyValentine https://lnkd.in/eRP4NSSY

📅 4 March 2026 Meet the TAG! Are you a web developer, or content author, with questions about why the web is the way it is, how it's evolving, or suggestions on how it should evolve? Do you want to know more about how the standards that govern how the platform works are being developed? Have you ever wondered how your input can shape the web platform? The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) will host a panel and Q&A for web developers who care about the web's architecture and direction. Register to join members of the TAG at Samsung Electronics KX for a panel discussion where you can ask anything you'd like about the platform, the opportunities it brings, and challenges facing it, and any features you'd like to see. We're keen to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the web platform, as well as any questions you may have. Meet the TAG is hosted by Samsung Internet's Web Standards Team. Samsung Internet is a fast and privacy-focused browser with innovative accessibility features. #WebStandard #WebPlatform #WebArchitecture https://lnkd.in/eMxnrjwi

W3C's Emma Fraser gave an update on our 2025 Membership Survey. "The 2025 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Membership Survey received incredibly positive and thoughtful responses from W3C Members. W3C is dedicated to continuously improving the value it delivers as well as listening and being responsive to its Members and the global community. The [Survey] has given W3C valuable insight into our Membership and their vision for the future and we are grateful to everyone who took the time to participate. We continuously strive to increase transparency, diversity, accessibility, and sustainability in our community." #Membership #webstandards #MemberBenefits https://lnkd.in/eXN52P-R

#GivingTuesday  Whether you celebrate today the national coffee break day ☕, the hunt for happiness 🤗 week, or the get organized 💻 month, or else, we ask that you take a moment to donate in support of the World Wide Web Consortium — the 30 year-old public-interest, non-profit global organization that develops web standards. We work for a platform where everyone builds and enjoys a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security. https://lnkd.in/eRP4NSSY

W3C is honored to join this illustrious group as a member of the Global Digital Collaboration Council and contribute to this important work.

As 2025 is drawing to an end we want to express our gratitude to our Members, staff, and community for the immense work accomplished this year towards making the web work — for everyone! We wish you all the best for 2026.  This year we made an animated holiday greeting. Warmly, from all of us at the World Wide Web Consortium. https://lnkd.in/eWUKh4Xe

On November 9, 2025, in Kobe, Japan we organized a developer meetup on behalf of W3C and NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS where the global web community met to coordinate the development of Web standards. Our speakers were: Lola O., Web standards expert and co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, explored how web standards can unintentionally exclude users, especially those with disabilities or limited access. Paul Adenot, Software Engineer at Mozilla and co-chair of the W3C Web Audio Working Group, presented a physical and historical perspective of media latencies.  Estelle Weyl, standardista, Open Web Docs contributor, demonstrated how to use CSS features to replicate state management and navigation functionalities. Kensaku Komatsu, director of innovation at NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS and chair of the Sync on the Web Community Group, demonstrated how MoQ (Media over QUIC) is a faster way to stream video and audio. More than 100 attendees gathered to hear this year’s outstanding speakers reaffirm that the web remains an exciting and dynamic development platform. This event was made possible thanks to the support of our sponsors, to which we want to express again our gratitude: Kobe Digital Labo, Google and AsraTec. #w3cTPAC #developers #DevMeetup #webstandards #WebAccessibility #video #CSS #audio https://lnkd.in/eFjxARGy