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World Wide Web Consortium
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main international standards organization for the World Wide Web
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The World Wide Web Consortium, commonly known by its acronym W3C, is an active organization established in 1994. It is located in Cambridge, United States. The organization employs 61 people and maintains an official website at w3.org, along with regional sites for China and France. Its official blog is hosted at w3.org/blog.
The W3C operates a Mastodon instance at w3c.social and has 198,130 social media followers. Contact information includes email addresses for membership and copyright inquiries. The organization’s terms of service are available online, and its legal framework includes an intellectual property notice from 2002.
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Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Other
- Founded
- 1994
- Location
- Cambridge, United States
- Also known as
- W3C
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.507688.4 · ISNI 0000 0000 8190 7712
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W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.
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Encyclopedic overview
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in the development of technical standards for the World Wide Web. As of March 2026, W3C has 331 members. The organization has been led by CEO Seth Dobbs since October 2023. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.
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