Norwegian newspapers widget Malik Muhammad Naeem Robert Larsen Kevan Qureshi 24 February 20101

2 Agenda Introduction Current situation Understanding users Design Prototype Demo Evaluation Questions Article

24 February Norwegian Newspapers Widget

24 February Current situation Mobile-widgets are not common People use their mobile browser Revolutionary phones Platforms

24 February What we want to do Widget VS Browser Use/users Opera Widget technology Application Store

24 February Understanding use and users User group User demands User survey

24 February Design Analyse and evaluate ‏ Lab Prototype

24 February Prototype High-fidelity prototype HTML5 CSS3 Javascript Opera Widgets

24 February Demo

24 February Evaluation User surveys User testing Observation

24 February Achievements so far.. Opera Widgets is capable Hello World User surveys (understanding users)

24 February Question?

Article S. Boyera Can the Mobile Web Bridge the Digital Divide?

History 1990 Inventor of the web 1994 Established W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) 1997 Web accessible for people with disabilities 2005 MWI (Mobile Web Initiative) established Make web accessible from mobile phones 2007 Time to think about new step(Why????)

Digital Divide Many people are using the Web but a significant number of people still do not have regular, effective access and the ability to use digital technologies. This is known as the ”Digital Divide”.

Solution Agreed – making bridge Disagree – About the solutions

Solution 1.One laptop per child

Solution 2.Microsoft Windows Mobile with TV-OUT

Solution 3.Spreading mobile with web access (2.4 billion- plus)

W3C in action Used the third alternative Organized Workshop (Mobile web) – Two communities participated 1.Experts in inventing new technology 2.Experts in economic and social issues Result: - Still a gap.. Good sign: - Workshops help them in further cooperation - Successful ICT projects rely on the cooperation of experts from both areas

Mobile web services These services will most likely succeed support health banking government services education business

SMS based services Most widespread easy to use low cost available on nearly all phones Negative: text-based only

Challenges on mobile-web Browser availability Configuration of internet settings User interface Cost of data service

Agreements in 2007 Standardized platform Inexpensive development and hosting Large scope and wide audience Easy availability and discoverability of existing services

Situation in 2007 Low-end phones are not supporting web- browsing capabilities well Web content is getting bigger in size

Suggestion for developing countries Text-based browser Not create low-level web One web (needs further work) Develop local applications Internationalization of content

Conclusion Need for public forum Understand the software and hardware Understand the global market Can W3C pull this off?