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The @w3c Web&AI #InterestGroup charter has been approved!
▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/webai/

The group seeks to provide a space to discuss how emerging #AI technologies are shaping the Web and how the community can work together to steer these developments for the benefit of users.

It may also contribute to documents such as Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning, The Agentic Web, Threat Model for AI in Browsers, Threat Model for Agentic AI Web Browsers, and others.

Join the group!

At the October 2025 "W3C in Europe 🇪🇺 " member meeting, @InesAkrap, co-chair of the @w3c Sustainable Web #InterestGroup, introduced the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). With ICT responsible for 2–5% of global emissions, the WSG outlines 93 guidelines across key domains and relates to EU efforts like REGSN and the Green Deal. A task force of the group is developing metrics to measure impact, with a final publication planned for April 2026.

Watch Ines' presentation: https://youtu.be/FK0sToCf8AU

The @w3c team is drafting a charter for a Web & AI #InterestGroup to establish an official forum within W3C for coordinating broad AI-related discussions.
▶️ https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2025/webai-ig.html

This new group is intended to explore how AI-related technologies intersect with Web technologies—examining their technical, #ethical, and societal impacts—tracking trends, connecting groups, supporting workshops, and exploring how #AI agents protocols may influence the Web.

Background info: https://www.w3.org/reports/ai-web-impact/

Join the W3C Exploration Interest Group: where standards start

https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/join-the-w3c-exploration-interest-group-where-standards-start/

#HackerNews #W3C #Exploration #Standards #InterestGroup #WebDevelopment #Innovation

🆕 The Exploration #InterestGroup is a @w3c initiative to explore web technology trends and support strategic discussions.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/exploration/

It will help find the gaps, make space for disagreement, spotlight use cases that standards groups haven’t prioritized yet, etc. Open to public input, the group welcomes broad participation and contributions to help shape web innovation: https://github.com/w3c/exploration-ig

Read more: https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/join-the-w3c-exploration-interest-group-where-standards-start/
and watch 🎬: https://youtu.be/HoAOHKmW1k8

Proposed charter for the @w3c Exploration #InterestGroup: its mission would be to provide members of the W3C Community a platform to explore emerging web technologies and collaborate on shaping trends for the benefit of web users.

▶️ https://www.w3.org/2025/02/ig-exploration-proposed-charter.html

This group would serve as a complement to existing member-focused discussions and broader community dialogues (@ab-led member meetings, #w3cTPAC breakouts, etc.)

🆕 @w3c has launched the Sustainable Web #InterestGroup to create guidelines and best practices for addressing #sustainability challenges in digital technology affecting both people and the planet.

Drawing from the SustyWeb #CommunityGroup’s work, the group will release the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0, designed for end-users, tool developers, educators, and policymakers.
➡️ https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/

Read @tzviya's post: https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-web-interest-group-is-formed/

Taking over the Privacy #InterestGroup's role in reviewing and advising other groups on enhancing user privacy in Web standards, the group will also develop the Global Privacy Control (GPC) spec., which defines a signal sent via HTTP and the DOM to request that #websites do not sell or share personal information with third parties.
▶️ https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/

GPC has been incubated in the Privacy #CommunityGroup, and anchors its signal in several existing legal frameworks: https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/#legal-effects

Sebastian Käbisch (Siemens), co-chair of the @wot #InterestGroup and #WorkingGroup, showcases how Web of Things #WoT technologies aid in developing #IoT apps and their adoption in the #European ecosystem.

#W3CEuropeMember 🇪🇺 #Germany 🇩🇪

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/pBuDoLG6M6I
▶️ See also the slides and transcript: https://www.w3.org/2024/Talks/w3c-in-europe/wot.html

For #w3cTPAC, M. McCool and S. Divakaran present distributed workers as a proposal to extend the web client program model to support distributed computing. #Wasm #WebWorkers #EdgeComputing Web&Networks #InterestGroup
Video transcript at: https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/demos/distrib-workers.html
🎬 https://youtu.be/wb58LeRkv7s

For #w3cTPAC, Louay Bassbouss (@FraunhoferFOKUS) demoes "#Metaverse Cloud Rendering on the Web" as a use case currently under discussion within the @w3c Web & Networks #InterestGroup
#EdgeRendering #WebRTC #WebCodecs #WebTransport
Transcript at https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/demos/web-networks.html
🎬 https://youtu.be/AR4l7xIPdZA?si=ncQjdNufni6vqqNq

#OxfordCounty #Pride launches #humanrights #complaint after #Norwich, #Ontario #bans #interestgroup #flags.

'People from #marginalizedcommunities are feeling hurt,' group's head says after 3-2 council vote

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Canada #Ontario #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/oxford-county-pride-launches-human-rights-complaint-after-norwich-ont-bans-interest-group-flags-1.6824525

▶️ https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1638619234488950801

To help promote and protect #privacy on the web, the Privacy Principles doc. provides definitions for privacy and a set of principles to ensure that the web is a trustworthy platform: https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/

It builds on previous work by the @w3c’s Privacy #InterestGroup and the @tag’s self-review #questionnaire on #security & #privacy": https://w3ctag.github.io/security-questionnaire/

This doc. intends to become a "W3C Statement". Feedback is welcome in #GitHub repo: https://github.com/w3ctag/privacy-principles/