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Explore the impact of digital services on sustainable development, bridging the digital divide, and practical resolutions. Learn about distributed services, reducing resource consumption, and internet evolution.
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Distributed Services to Conserve Resources Stop the Re-invention of a Wheel FURUSE Nobuhiro PhD
Overview GDP is the indicator employed exclusively in the 20th century to evaluate and compare the status of a country.
OverviewCritical Development Issues • What is Development? • How can we compare levels of development? • What does it take to make development sustainable?
Our Common Future Sustainable Development Caring For the Earth (1991)
Information for Decision-Making • Bridging a data gap • Improving information availability
New Impact Factor - Digital Divide on Information Technologies • Developed Country Occupied 88% of the Internet Users UNDEP - Human Development Report 1999
E-mail Service Raised International Tax Proposal in 1991 Most Fundamental and Traditional Services on Internet ...
Practical Resolutions (1) Basic Approach for Reduction of Digital Divide Users Viewpoints Saving Cost of Access
Practical Resolutions (2) • Linkage utilization of opened server resources in the developed countries • Discovery good starting points for your special purposes
Practical Resolutions (3) Direct Connection between User and WWWs Required Text/Graphics User HTTP On-line WWW Indirect Connection between User and WWWs (You can get www contents ( text and graphics!) by e-mail.) Required Text/Graphics W3mail Server WWW SMTP Off-line HTTP On-line
E-mail Access Good Starting Points • A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email (Kaitlin Duck Sherwood) • Accessing the Internet by Email ( Dr.Bob Rankin)
Example When you will send your query by e-mail to get web content send ... http://www.google.com/search?q=grid+&site= search&hl=en&safe=off&output=search for a w3mail gateway service
Handle for Binary Data Graphic Utilities' Site & Version FAQ v.022 (Brian D. Stark)
Next Generation Services • Based on Mobile Agent Technologies • Distributed and Load Balanced Technologies
Topic : Cellar Phone in Japan • Trend: i-mode ( cHTML ) • Key Concept : improvement in the literacy and the userbility base on the national character
User Centered Design New Trend • Web Accessibility • Usable Web
Literature for More Learning • S.Nanthikesan: Trends in Digital Divide, 2000, Human Development Report, 2001 background Papers
Acknowledgements • Arthur Secret for his work of developing original source code of agora(w3mail) during 1993-1995 at w3.org