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Mr Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, is coming to India next week. He is to take part in an international conference that will discuss the future of Web and the challenges it face.
Mr Tim, who is also the conference director, will be in Hyderabad on March 28 to inaugurate the 20th edition of International World Wide Web Conference that would focus on the regional and global impact of expanding Open Web Platform for application development.
He will deliver an inaugural address on ‘Designing the Web for an Open Society', throwing light on aspects that would have influence on the Web in this century.
Jointly organised with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT, Bangalore and Hyderabad) and Institute of Information Technology (IIT, Bombay), the five-day conference would have representatives from various countries.
“The theme for WWW 2011 is ‘Web for All' to promote the all-inclusive aspects of the Web. By virtue of being hosted in a growing developing country, bubbling with innovation, this year's theme aims to highlight the need for expanding the horizons of the Web to become all inclusive and pervasive, reaching out to every human life,” a press release said.
Besides Mr Tim, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President, and Mr Christos H. Papadimitriou, member of the National Academy of Sciences (US), would deliver the keynote address.
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