In New Delhi: The World Wide Web Consortium, the organization that oversees Web standards such as HTML 5 and others, has a new CEO.
W3C today named Dr. Jeffrey Jaffe its new Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Jaffe brings to the role extensive global leadership experience in the Information Technology industry, including as President of Bell Labs Research and Advanced Technologies at Lucent Technologies; as Vice President of Technology for IBM; and most recently as Executive Vice President, products, and Chief Technology Officer at Novell. In these positions he has combined business leadership and vision with technical expertise, and demonstrated strong support for open standards and open source.
"Web technologies continue to be the vehicle for every industry to incorporate the rapid pace of change into their way of doing business," said Dr. Jaffe.
"I'm excited to join W3C at this time of increased innovation, since W3C is the place where the industry comes together to set standards for the Web in an open and collaborative fashion," he added
As W3C CEO, Dr. Jaffe will work with Director Tim Berners-Lee, staff, Membership, and the public to evolve and communicate W3C's organizational vision. The CEO is responsible for W3C's global operations, for maintaining the interests of all of the W3Cs stakeholders, and for sustaining a culture of cooperation and transparency, so that W3C continues to be the leading forum for the technical development and stewardship of the Web.
W3C's initiatives including HTML 5 and other Web Applications technology, Semantic Web, Mobile Web, Accessibility, and Internationalization are all designed to make the Web a powerful tool for commerce, collaboration, and creativity. As more people connect to the Web using a wider variety of devices, and as the world increases its reliance on the Internet ecosystem, W3C is poised to enter a new phase of organisational evolution.
Dr. Jaffe plans to blog regularly on the W3C CEO Blog, beginning with his first post on reflections of a new W3C CEO. More about Dr. Jaffe is available on his home.
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