World Wide Web Consortium welcomes Sylvia Cadena as Chief Development Officer

Sylvia Cadena is deeply embedded in the Web and Internet community. She comes to W3C from APNIC where she served the technical community for the last 16 years, the last eight supporting the establishment of the APNIC Foundation as the Head of Programs and Partnerships as well as Acting CEO during a transition period.

For around 30 years she has led collaborative Internet industry initiatives across the Asia Pacific region and Latin America and brings extensive experience in fundraising, program design and management, operations, compliance and reporting, transition and change management.

The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to lead the Web to its full potential by creating technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the Web remains open, accessible, and interoperable for everyone around the globe.

W3C well-known standards HTML and CSS are the foundational technologies upon which websites are built. W3C works on ensuring that all foundational Web technologies meet the needs of civil society, in areas such as accessibility, internationalization, security, and privacy. W3C also provides the standards that undergird the infrastructure for modern businesses leveraging the Web, in areas such as entertainment, communications, digital publishing, and financial services. That work is created in the open, provided for free and under the groundbreaking W3C Patent Policy.