ANU to play role in World Wide Web development »

ANU is set to play a significant role in guiding the future of the Web after being chosen as the new host of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Australia Office. The W3C is an international consortium of over 400 member organisations that work together to develop Web standards and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. Dr Armin Haller, who will become Manager of the W3C Australian Office, said it was a great honour for ANU to be chosen as host. "The W3C is looking at broadening the Web, and this is where ANU will really come into play," he said. "Where change is happening is in the vertical domains, and that's really interesting to us - things like Web payments, digital publishing, linked open data, Web of things and Web security - these are areas our researchers are already involved in." Founded in 1994 by the inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee , W3C has overseen more than 345 technical standards that make the Web work. Its members include Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook. In Canberra today, W3C Global Business Development Lead, J. Alan Bird, said ANU was the perfect fit for the consortium.