Mission
The purposes of the IW3C2 are:
- To set up the organization of international technical and scientific conferences of excellence regarding the World Wide Web in order to maintain and extend research and collaboration in the development and evolution of an open World Wide Web.
- To ensure a balance of conference sites over the world.
- To make information arising from these conferences and forums permanently and openly available on the widest possible scale.
- To preserve the history of the conferences.
- To encourage the global development of the World Wide Web.
- To provide a permanent, broad-based international body to achieve these purposes.
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