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Mobile Web for Social Development. Mobile phones: the most promising platform. to develop and deploy eServices (education, health, banking, etc.) > 2.7+billion of mobile phones in the world >80% of the world population covered by a GSM network. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Mobile Web for Social Development
Mobile phones: the most promising platform
• to develop and deploy eServices (education, health, banking, etc.)
• > 2.7+billion of mobile phones in the world
• >80% of the world population covered by a GSM network
Mobile Web: unleashing the power of mobile phones
Mobile Web:
• No interoperability problems
• Web standards widely adopted
• Cheap/free hosting • Development platform
• Discoverability through portals and search engines • Enhanced interaction through forms/voice/multimodal
Join us! Get involved!
• How to make the Web relevant, usable, and
useful for rural communities and underprivileged
populations ?
• W3C organizes a workshop on the Role of Mobile
Technologies in Fostering Social Development,
on 2-3 June 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil
• http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/
• Contact Stéphane Boyera: [email protected]