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W3C Standard ODRL Policy gaining industry adoption

The ODRL Policy Recommendation, finalised in 2018, is gaining global adoption across industries. Adopted by JPEG Trust, IDSA, DSSC, Gaia-X, and EUIPO, ODRL enables machine-readable rights, usage, and governance policies. Its flexibility and broad applicability highlight industry needs, with future standardisation now under community consideration.

Threat Modeling with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Building your Digital Identity threat

W3C explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in digital identity systems. Participants built threats from real-world harms, mapped them into shared landscapes, and discovered they are connected.

W3C logo refresh: more than a cosmetic change, a small step towards durable and sustainable success

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs positions W3C’s adoption of a new logo and tagline as one step towards W3C achieving key strategic goals by drawing attention and making the right impression. Read more to find out how this helps in terms of welcoming new stakeholders, diversifying our support, and broadening our impact.

26 awardees in W3C's TPAC Inclusion and Invited Expert Support funds

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs reports on the selection of 26 recipients in a funding program related to W3C's stakeholder strategy and Community Engagement support.

Vision for W3C to reach durable and sustainable success

In this blog post about the newly published W3C Statement "Vision for W3C", W3C CEO Seth Dobbs emphasizes the importance of principle-driven leadership and how vision gives clarity to move towards meaningful goals.

Vision for W3C: a manifesto for our operations and decision making

Today, W3C is pleased to announce the publication as a W3C Statement of Vision for W3C. W3C Statements provide a stable reference for documents not intended to be formal standards but that have been formally reviewed and are endorsed by W3C.

W3C Digital Credentials API publication: the next step to privacy-preserving identities on the web

W3C recently published specifications will build foundations for new ways to represent identity on the web. Verifiable Credentials 2.0 and the first draft of Digital Credentials API enable the secure, seamless exchange of digital credentials on the web, emphasizing flexibility, emerging cryptography, compliance with regulation, and W3C principles related to privacy and security. All of these topics will be on the agenda of the Global Digital Collaboration, co-organized by W3C.

Public release of W3C’s 2025-2028 strategic objectives initiatives

In this blog post, W3C President and CEO Seth Dobbs introduces the initiatives for 2025-2028 that will support W3C’s strategic objectives.

W3C seeks community input for Board of Directors appointments

The W3C Board of Directors has open seats that can be appointed by the Board of Directors itself for two-year terms. W3C is seeking community input to identify Board Director candidates with financial skills, legal acumen, and fundraising experience, as well as with connections to other SDOs, who might improve the collective skills of the existing W3C Board of Directors.

Privacy on the web: creating a more trustworthy web

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs explains why and how privacy on the web as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C’s mission, mentions current focus on Global Privacy Control (GPC), private advertising, and the recent W3C Statement on privacy principles.