At our Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 AC meeting Dr. Naoshi Hirata spoke about how the Internet and Web are vital in emergencies, enabling seamless collaboration and information sharing.

Dr. Hirata, of the University of Tokyo, presented: "distributed disaster management data" using a case study for the Noto peninsula earthquake that struck Japan on January 1, 2024.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/v3vV8i2-3Ts

The HTML WG has published a Working Draft of HTML Ruby Markup Extensions.

Ruby, a form of interlinear annotation, are short runs of text alongside the base text. They are typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification revises and extends the markup model established by HTML to express ruby.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/working-draft-html-ruby-markup-extensions/

At our recent AC meeting Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke on his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.

He spoke about the potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars 🌎 🌖 ✨

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8