International conference on WWW to be held in Hyd on March 28

The 20th International World Wide Web (WWW) conference will be held here on March 28, in association with the International Institute of Information Technology (III-T) Hyderabad, IIIT-B (Bangalore) and the Institute of Information Technology (IIT) Bombay.

The event, being organised for the first-time in India, would be a platform for discussion on web evolution and standardisation of its associated technologies. It would promote an all-inclusive aspect of the web highlighting the need for expanding its horizons and reaching out to the fast-growing community of people who have to deal with the WWW either as developers or users.

"There are various issues and challenges coming up in the cyber space including affordability, cyber threat and ownership," S Sadagopan, director IIIT-B, said.

The key topics for discussion would be web services, data mining, web 2.0, social networks, security and privacy, web engineering, mobile web and multimodal interaction etc.

Web usage would go five times higher from the current usage in the next 20 years. The event would be a forum for researchers to come out with solutions and new technologies, he added.

Around 20 per cent of the world's population lives in India and 70-80 per cent of world's technology and softwares are being developed by Indians, RK Baga, IIIT-H said. Around 2,000 delegates, including 300 researchers from across the globe, would participate in the five-day event.