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World Wide Web (W3) Consortium

Definition

Group of representatives from the computer and communication industries whose objective is to expedite and manage the evolution of the web through the development of common standards (protocols). Established in 1994, it is jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute Of technology Laboratory For computer science (MIT-LCS) in the US, Institut National De Reserche En Informatique Et En Automatique (INRIA) in the European Union, and Keio University in Japan, and is directed by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web.

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