Carine Bournez, a technical coordinator on the WS2 project, spoke to GRIDtoday about the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). "We evaluated the impact of the project by monitoring European participation in the various W3C working groups we support," she said. "We measured up to 70 percent European participation in these particular groups - North American participants are usually the majority."
"These results are impressive," the GRIDtoday article explained, "precisely because standards development is such an arduous and lengthy process. However WS2 has very effectively spurred communities and companies to action. The project achieved these impressive results by organizing conferences, hosting a seminar and demonstrating example applications."
