[decentralized] The German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) welcomes the formation of the DWIG

[bvdw-ev]

The German Association for the Digital Economy (BVDW) is the central body for the representation of interests of companies that operate digital business models and whose value creation is based on the implementation of digital technologies. As the driving force, guide and accelerator of digital business models, the BVDW represents the interests of the digital economy towards politics and society and campaigns for the creation of market transparency and framework conditions that encourage innovation.

We welcome the formation of the DWIG to evolve recommendations to further the W3C’s One Web purpose by identifying, balancing and mitigating the unintended impacts of proposals early in the process, encouraging uniform change, and promoting OpenStand principles.

[tmo-sirdata]

Sirdata as W3C's member do support the creation of such a group that could help maintaining a truly level-playing field within the digital advertising industry still by allowing competition and innovation while providing strong guarantees to preserve user privacy.

And from a wider perspective which could help identity, mitigate and/or avoid any other W3C groups' undesirable effects threatening W3C's purpose to struggle for 'One Web' fueled by open standards.

Since the web has became such important for millions of businesses and billions of people across the globe and because advertising is currently the predominant business model to fund it, this is a duty for the W3C, as a web standard body, to preserve and protect people's civil rights.

This can only be achieved relying on local regulations on privacy and data protection, and policies - not only on code - and making sure the web protocols enable a minimum of diversity in the web advertising space, in other words, on how the web is funded.

Is there any chance to know when this new group will be submitted to the Advisory Board to vote on?