We have a platform for discussion on web evolution and standardisation of its associated technologies, and 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 IT either as developers or users.

The event would highlight the need for expanding the horizons of the web technologies to become all inclusive and pervasive, reaching out to every human life.

The affordability of Internet and 3G, mobile phone and mobile Internet penetration, has made a lot of people to access Internet and Internet penetration is growing at a faster rate compared to five-years before.

The present situation of focusing on the regional and global impact of expanding open web platform for application development mainly in e-medicine, e-governance, agriculture, traffic management and route finding, citizenship services and education.

There are various issues and challenges coming up in the IT Environment including affordability, cyber threat and ownership, and it would focus on the technical challenges in overcoming the digital divide and ways to bring the web to underserved populations. 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.

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