W3C Greek Office

The W3C Office in Greece (http://www.w3c.gr/), authorised for enrolling new W3C Members, was founded in 1998 and is hosted by the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH. The W3C Office in Greece informs at a national level regarding W3C cutting-edge technologies, the applications performed and the potentials of the present Web so that it evolves to the Web of the future.
The W3C Office in Greece has managed to activate a critical mass of Greek Web users. The activities of the W3C Office in Greece include, among others, the dissemination of the W3C related information in Greek through translations of W3C News and Press releases, an electronic monthly newsletter and dissemination of information material to interested parties, such as private companies and academic institutes that are active in the area of Web technologies.

The home page of the W3C Greek Office

The Web page of the W3C Office in Greece is updated on a daily basis, with translations of the News and the press releases that appear in the Web page of W3C, as well as with information such as the enrolment process and other general information in Greek (http://www.w3c.gr/).
Furthermore, the W3C Office in Greece organizes events in which the participants have the opportunity to exchanges information and views as well as to be informed regarding the W3C cutting edge technologies. In the context of such activities, the
Greek Office organised a successful one-day event in Athens (June 2004) related to the Semantic Web. Contributions to the event were made by distinguished members of academia, research organizations, W3C and private firms. (http://www.w3c.gr/office/events/2003/st/press.en.html)
Besides the contacts with companies and academic institutes, the W3C Office in Greece communicates with the Greek media, magazines and newspapers that publish technology-related articles (http://www.w3c.gr/office/in-press.html).
Recently, the W3C Greek Office has been involved in research activities. For example, it participated in Question How Project (http://www.w3.org/2001/qh/) involving software development to promote World Wide Web standards.

leaflet of W3C Programme, 2004 24 pages, in pdf format (5MB)

One of the only 14 W3C Offices is located in Greece at FORTH-ICS