I- The I is represents the leading I in International.
W3- The W3 represents the three 3 leading W's in World Wide Web.
C2- The C2 represents the three 2 leading C's in Conference Committee.
Mission
The mission of the IW3C2 is:
To coordinate the organization and planning of the international WWW conference series and ensure that it remains the foremost conference addressing World Wide Web research and development;
To promote a collaborative spirit among conference attendees that is essential to the success of the series;
To ensure the global geographical diversity of conference sites and provide support to local organizers at those sites;
To make sure that all content arising from these conferences and forums is permanently and openly available on the widest possible scale;
To provide a permanent, broad-based international body to achieve these purposes.
Conferences
The conferences are organized by the IW3C2 in collaboration with local organizing committees and technical program committees. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review. The proceedings of the conference are published in the ACM Digital Library.
Endorsed conferences
The IW3C2 has endorsed regional conferences devoted to a special topic of the Web by working with endorsed conferences on cross-promotion, publicity and programs.
Membership
are ordinary members, ex officio members, non-voting members, and officers.
Ordinary members
Ordinary members are elected for a period of 3 years during a general meeting. Members are nominated due to their recognition in the WWW community and represent themselves. Members can be re-elected only after at least one year of absence. The following are the founding members at the time when IW3C2 was officially incorporated in May 1996:
Jean-François Abramatic
Tim Berners-Lee
Robert Cailliau
Dale Dougherty
Ira Goldstein
Joseph Hardin
Tim Krauskopf
Detlef Krömker
Corinne Moore
R. P. Channing Rodgers
Albert Vezza
Stuart Weibel
Yuri Rubinsky
The following are the current ordinary members:
Robin Chen
Chin-Wan Chung
Allan Ellis
Wendy Hall - IW3C2 Chair
Ivan Herman
Arun Iyengar - IW3C2 Vice Chair
Irwin King
Yoelle Maarek
Luc Mariaux - IW3C2 Treasurer
Daniel Schwabe - IW3C2 Vice-Chair
''Ex officio'' members
Ex officio members are selected from the immediate past conference general co-chairs and from future conference co-chairs. Their term expires one year after the conference they organized. Ex officio members can be elected as ordinary members. The following are current ex officio members and the conference with which they are affiliated:
Jacqueline Bourdeau - WWW2016
James Hendler - WWW2016
Rick Barrett - WWW2017
Rick Cummings - WWW2017
Laurent Flory - WWW2018
Fabien Gandon - WWW2018
Officers
The IW3C2 officers consist of a chairperson, a vice-chair, a secretary, a treasurer, and other appointees. Officers are elected during a general meeting and serve for one year. They can be re-elected an indefinite number of times.
This annual award, presented at the WWW conference, is made possible by a generous contribution from the organizers of WWW2014. Recipients are determined by the IW3C2 and honor the author, or authors, of a paper presented at a previous WWW conference that has "stood the test of time." The first award, announced at WWW2015, recognized Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google. The recipients of the WWW2016 award are LinkIn scientist Dr. Badrul Sarwar and University of Minnesota professors George Karypis, Joseph Konstan, and John Riedl for their work initem-item collaborative filtering.
