Ministry of Digital Development becomes official member of W3C, represents Taiwan in web technology standardization : Taiwan Today (2023/01/01) /06)
The Ministry of Digital Development (= Ministry of Digital Development) this month became an official member of the World Wide Web Consortium (= W3C), an international organization that promotes the standardization of World Wide Web technologies, under the government agency name “Ministry of Digital Affairs, Taiwan. W3C], an international organization that promotes standards for World Wide Web technologies. The Ministry of Digital Affairs will actively participate in the standardization of web technologies on behalf of Taiwan.
Founded in 1994, W3C is the principal international standards organization for web technologies worldwide. Its purpose is to establish common standards for the Web and standardize Web technologies worldwide by promoting the development of compatible technologies.
from Plurality Tokyo Keynote from Audrey Tang
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Earlier this year, we worked with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop verifiable credentials (verifiable credentials, VC) and distributed IDs (decentralized identifiers, DID). Through such a framework, we can play an important role in verifying the authenticity of natural persons, legal entities, and new organizational structures such as DAOs.
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