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Digital World Forum: Low-cost Technologies against the Digital Divide

Digital World Forum: Low-cost Technologies against the Digital Divide. St é phane Boyera W3C France. Background. Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT FP7 funded project Support Action for International Cooperation (International Relations Unit)

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Digital World Forum: Low-cost Technologies against the Digital Divide

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  1. Digital World Forum: Low-cost Technologies against the Digital Divide Stéphane Boyera W3C France

  2. Background Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT • FP7 funded project • Support Action for International Cooperation (International Relations Unit) • Project Officer: Thierry Devars • Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America • Start date: 2008-01-01 • End date: 2009-30-09 • 7 partners from: • France • Spain • Nigeria • Ghana • South Africa

  3. Partners Consortium

  4. Domain: ICT4D • ICT and the Information Society: a great opportunity to leverage social and economic development • by facilitating the development and deployment of services (finance, health, education, government, agriculture,...) at large scale and low cost • by leveraging north-south, and international communication and exchanges • Required Infrastructure, and investments (global and personal) created the Digital Divide • Low-Cost technologies and mobile technologies: a new hope for potential solutions to bridge the Digital Divide Digital World Forum: paving the road from hope to reality

  5. Scope • Mobile Applications • Low-cost laptops • Low-cost broadband technologies

  6. Objectives • State of the art • Community Building: creating a global forum for all actors: industry, research, local communities, NGO... • particular focus on field expertise, and involvement of final users/customers/local communities • Identification of challenges and roadmap definition • Dissemination

  7. Project Structure • 3 technical Work Packages (WP) • WP1: Mobile Web applications (Leading Partner: W3C) • WP2: Low-Cost Laptops (Leading Partner: CSIR) • WP3: Low-cost Broadband Infrastructures (Leading Partner: Orange Labs)

  8. WP1: Mobile Web for Social Development • Mobile Phones offer a scalable and affordable platform to develop and deploy eServices: • > 4+billion of mobile phones in the World • >80% of the World Population covered by a GSM network • How to unleash the power of mobile phone as an ICT platform ?

  9. WP2 Low-Cost Information Access Device • The goal of this work package is to get an understanding and updated scenario of the current state-of the-art in the sector of low-cost laptop technologies for developing countries. • It will particularly focus on providing a framework for a bottom-up process in order to define interactively a roadmap within an inclusive participation from all stakeholders. • Leverage EU and EU major actors roles in the Low-cost laptop sectors • WP Leader: Cleophas Dzinotyiweyi (CDzinotyiweyi@csir.co.za) - CSIR

  10. WP3: Low-Cost Broadband Access and Infrastructure • The goal of this work package is to devise a generic approach to the "last mile" issue in developing countries, by assessing each key technological solution in the light of a typology of local contextual factors. • Major competing technologies: WiFi and WiFi mesh, WiMax, Edge, CDMA, 3G/HSxPA, ... • Modus operandi: • conduct an exhaustive in-lab analysis of each technology • enrich this analysis via interactions with key industry/market players and stakeholders • identify appropriate initiatives to be undertaken at EU level • WP Leader: Bruno Conquet - Orange labs (bruno.conquet@orange-ftgroup.com)

  11. How to get involved in the project • A public Website: http://www.digitalworldforum.eu • Announces and future events • Conferences and Exhibitions participations • Public Documents • Contacts • A list for any enquiries: digitalworld-contact@ercim.org • A set of Fora dedicated to each theme of the project • a Forum on Mobile Web for Social Development: http://forum.digitalworldforum.eu/group/mobilewebforsocialdevelopment • A Forum on Low-cost Information Access Device: http://forum.digitalworldforum.eu/group/WP2 • A forum on Low-Cost Broadband access and Infrastructure: http://forum.digitalworldforum.eu/group/lowcostbroadbandaccessandinfrastrucure

  12. Conclusion • Digital World Forum aims at • Make a state of the art in the domain of Low-cost technologies for ICT deployment • Identify key challenges and most promising directions to explore • Assemble a worldwide inter-disciplinary community to discuss future implementation of the roadmaps • Feedback, participation and contributions are welcome • Final event in Brussels 29 September 2009

  13. Agenda • Introduction (S. Boyera - W3C) • WP1: Mobile Web Applications (S. Boyera - W3C) • WP2: Low-Cost Information Access Device (C. Dzinotyiweyi - CSIR) • WP3: Low-Cost Broadband Access and Infrastructure (B. Conquet & M. Francisco - Orange Labs) • Round Table (S. Boyera, C. Dzinotyiweyi, B. Conquet, M. Francisco, T. Devars)

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