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The W3C World Wide Web (WWW) Consortium is the backbone of the web as we know it today. The consortium is an International effort of member organizations, W3C staff and public contribution aimed at developing a World Wide Web for everyone. The W3C mission is "To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web."

Tim Berners-Lee is the director of the W3C, who also is the inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989. W3C strives for continual performance, shaping future Web standards to accommodate changing technologies, hardware, software and the diversity of global user growth.

The W3C standards are what shape our current Web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape and Firefox. These International standards provide a neutral balance to the Web and ensure interoperability for International users alike. W3C provide standards for applications such as accessibility for the disabled, HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Voice, Data, Web API's and the mobile Web, just to name a few. The W3C is the authority source on everything Web standards related.

Currently WC3 are developing International technologies allowing users to browse the web through eyes, ears, voice and touch, truly innovative progress for the benefit of all. Unique corporate sectors aid this development of technologies in conjunction with W3C to ensure global standardization. These inspiring developments will alter the way many of us interact, changing our standard use of the keyboard and mouse. Although voice and touch technology are already a reality, unilateral standards of advancing technology must now be developed which is the focus of W3C.

You can read more about the W3C directly from their 'about' Center.

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