Ombuds Serve Constituents of World Wide Web Consortium

In 2014, the internet standards organization appointed a group of Ombuds to assist internal and external stakeholders. The role of the W3C Ombuds has never been explicitly defined and a working group last year considered IOA standards, but the issue remains unresolved. Meanwhile, the W3C Ombuds referenced as one of the organization's "Positive Work Environment" resources. W3C is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has many connections to MIT.

The current W3C Ombuds are:

• Jeff Jaffe, CEO of W3C and graduate of MIT;
• Xiaoqian Wu, Software Engineer (site manager of the Beihang host, team contact of the Web Applications Working Group and the HTML Working Group), and graduate of Beihang University;
• Caroline Baron, Finance and Administrative Manager for W3C at the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, and graduate of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis;
• Naomi Yoshizawa, Global Member Relations Lead including operation of W3C atKeio University; and
• Ralph Swick, Chief Operating Officer and graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University. Ralph's interests are in applications of Web technologies to support human-human interaction, especially over time and distance.

(W3C Ombuds; W3C Positive Work Environment Community Group Meeting Notes; People of W3C.)

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