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Mobile Web for Social Development

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.

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Mobile Web for Social Development

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  1. Mobile Web for Social Development

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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: boyera@w3.org

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