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Issue 27: March 2000

Changes at the UK W3C Office

Bob Hopgood, who has run the W3C Office in the UK since its start is retiring from RAL on 7 April. The new Head will be Stuart Robinson, who has been involved with the W3C activity since its start so we do not expect any lack of continuity. This is particularly true as Bob, in his retirement, is going to work part-time for W3C as Head of Offices, taking over from Josef Dietl. The continuity is further enhanced as W3C is renting an Office at RAL and Bob will be in the next office to Stuart keeping an eye on him!

Membership of W3C Hits 400!

The total number of W3C Members has risen to 400. The breakdown is as follows:

Type Americas Europe Pacific Total
Full 50 29 14 93
Affiliate 184 83 37 304
Host 1 1 1 3
Total 235 113 52 400

Recent new Members are:

Internet Take-up in Europe

We have had some difficulty trying to get a feel for the take-up of the Internet in Europe. This table shows our best attempt at indicating penetration in Europe. Greece is missed off because we could not find any statistics there! The ones marked in blue are the countries that have W3C Offices (did we make an impression?) and France is marked in red indicating that it has the European W3C Host. Clearly the UK are doing pretty well but not as good as Scandinavia. Perhaps the new government initiatives will help to raise us up the league table.

Country Internet Users (000) Population (000) Percentage
Sweden 3,950 8,911 44.3
Norway 1,340 4,438 30.2
Finland 1,430 5,158 27.7
UK 13,975 59,113 23.6
Netherlands 2,933 15,807 18.6
Switzerland 1,179 7,275 16.2
Germany 12,285 82,087 15.0
Denmark 741 5,356 13.8
Belgium 1,400 10,182 13.7
Ireland 370 3,632 10.2
France 5,696 58,978 9.7
Israel 500 5,749 8.7
Italy 4,745 56,735 8.4
Spain 2,905 39,167 7.4
Austria 362 8,139 4.4
Portugal 200 9,918 2.0

WWW9 in Amsterdam: 15-19 May

Join five world leaders in the 21st Century Web community as they deliver keynote speeches at The Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9), the only Web conference where leaders from academia, research, government and industry meet on a global stage. The conference will be held May 15-19, 2000, at the Amsterdam RAI, with Web-related hardware, software, and services expositions to open May 16-18. Registration for the conference is available online at http://www9.org.

The keynote speakers include:

The conference will last five full days with Tutorials and Workshops on day one, Keynotes and tracks for Refereed Papers, Poster Sessions, Web and Industry track, Web/Internet and Society track, Culture track, Panels and Invited Speakers on days two through four, and a Developers' Day on day five. The conference is also a unique opportunity to lear about the latest developments on Web standards, due to the extensive W3C track, organized by the W3C itself.

Please check the conference Web site for the full program and other details, and register now to take advantage of earlybird discounts.

Ivan Herman, CWI, Amsterdam, NL, and Albert Vezza, CNRI, Reston, USA are the WWW9 Conference Co-Chairs. Ivan runs the W3C Office in the Netherlands.

W3C Track at WWW9

As always, W3C will have a track running throughout the Conference. The schedule is not totally nailed down at this time but it is beginning to firm up as follows:

Tuesday 16 May

Wednesday 17 May

Thursday 18 May

If you want to find out the latest news about what is going on, Amsterdam in May is the place.

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