by Harry Rudin

These days, the air is typically full of discouraging economic news. In contrast, the atmosphere at the ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 Conference in Geneva, 5 - 9 October, 2009, was up-beat and rippling with energy and excitement. Relevant to this issue of ERCIM News, there was considerable interest in Green ICT.

In the context of the 10-year long presence of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Greece, the W3C Greece Office held an event on September 16th, 2009 in Heraklion, Crete, at ICS-FORTH, where the office is hosted. The W3C Greece Office, which is among the first five offices to join the World Wide Web Consortium, shares the consortium’s goals and vision and contributes towards the improvement and participation of the Greek community in the evolution of the World Wide Web.