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 Contact Stéphane Boyera: