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100 million Net users in India by '08

November 10, 2005 16:13 IST
India will have 100 million Internet users and 20 million broadband connections by 2008-2010, Brajesh kumar, secretary, department of information technology, said on Monday.

Speaking at the International Conference and Workshop on Web Technologies organised by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing and launch of W3C Indian office in New Delhi, Kumar said the 21st century is increasingly depending on IT and India is a country with good amount of IT literacy and known for its IT services.

Steve Bratt, Chief Operating Officer, W3C said his company considered India as a major centre for opening an office of W3C. This office will be the first one in the country and 15th worldwide.

Tim Berners-Lee, W3C director and inventor of the World Wide Web, in an online message, said India is very exciting place for IT.  He also expressed happiness over the launch of W3C office in India.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was created by Tim Berners-Lee and others as an international body dedicated to building consensus around web technologies.

The conference is mainly targeted at chief technical officers of the industry and R&D institutions to discuss the future direction in IT and Web technology.

The objective of the two-day conference is also to create awareness about the futuristic developments in web technologies among the Indian IT community, researchers and institutions to leapfrog to products and services based on International standards.

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