RE: Roadmap update and task definition

Dear all,

Sorry I could not attend the last confcall.

I agree with Arun on Q3 and I could certainly contribute there.

Best,

Nicolas

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> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 8:02 AM
> To: Arun Kumar
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> Subject: Re: Roadmap update and task definition
> 
> 
> Hi Arun,
> 
> > I can look up projects related to SMS, Voice, and web based access.
I
> can
> > also dig some existing projects information in the agriculture and
> health
> > space.
> 
> this is great, the list of commitment is growing !
> 
> 
>  > Is somebody going to reorganize the Stories wiki page along the
> > lines you suggested.
> 
> yes, the somebody is me. I've the action to reorganize both the story
> page and the roadmap doc. I hope to do it for next call, taking place
> monday.
> 
> > How do we contribute. I could not find a way to modify
> > the Wiki contents - Am I missing something ?
> 
> yes. Because we had spammer issues in the past, there is no W3C wiki
> fully open to the public for contribution. Therefore, after one
creates
> his/her account, (s)he has to ask the administrator of the wiki to
> become a contributor/editor. Being the admin of this wiki, i just
> validated your login to be an editor. Let me know if it works now.
> 
> 
> > On a related note, would we not want to address Q3 also. In my view
that
> > would be most important. While Q1 and Q2 identify existing work and
> > consolidating what has been achieved so far, Q3 is what would
> > summarize/categorize the learnings from those and identifying
> > challenges/gaps from those. These recommendations should lay the
> foundation
> > for a follow-up W3C group. This group could take up the agenda of
> > establishing some standard(s) for addressing those challenges/gaps.
> 
> yes, this is all our objectives here !
> Just one remark: there might also be some challenges that are not
> relevant to W3C. So the roadmap might have a larger scope than just
the
> W3C audience
> 
> Best
> Stephane
> > thanks and regards
> > Arun Kumar
> >
> > World Wide Telecom Web (aka Spoken Web) :
> >
>
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/arun_kumar
.W
> WTW.html
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> > Dear All,
> >
> > I take an action during last call to launch a discussion on the list
> > about organizing better the work to "get things done" in a more
> > effective way.
> > This was a follow-up on a thread in the mailing-list 2 weeks ago
> > Read
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mw4d/2008Nov/0038.html
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mw4d/2008Nov/0041.html
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mw4d/2008Nov/0044.html
> >
> > Let's start first with the goals of this group.
> >  From the charter (http://www.w3.org/2007/12/MW4D/charter1.1.html  )
> >
> > 1- how are mobile platforms delivering ICT-based services?
> > 2- what are the strengths & weaknesses of the different ways
> >      of delivering applications on mobile phones?
> > 3- what are the different type of challenges to developing &
deploying
> >      ICT-based services in rural & underprivileged populations?
> > 4- what are the challenges to capacity building, to stimulating
> >      local content & app dev, and to empowering people?
> >
> > Instead of trying to adress these questions one by one, i propose
that
> > we define a strategy to adress them all in parrallel, and define a
set
> > of small tasks to different (set of) people and then merge the
results
> > all together which should bring the first real draft of the roadmap.
> >
> > About question 1, as suggested in the thread i mentionned earlier, i
> > believe that we should start by investigating existing applications
and
> > investigate the following aspects
> > - what is the technology used
> > - what are the requirements on device and network
> > - who is the content developer and provider (government/public
sector,
> > big corporation, individual enterpreneur, grassroot/ngo)
> > - what are the socio-economic impacts of the services (what kind of
> > improvements for which segment of the population)
> > - what are the content provider challenges
> > - what are the access challenges (challenge for targeted users to
access
> > the service)
> > - what are the cost and sustainability challenges
> >
> > any other aspect ?
> >
> > At http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/Stories there is a quite
impressive
> > set of ressources including links to other existing database of
similar
> > information.
> > so in order to share the load between us, what we could do is
roughly
> > divide by type of applications:
> > - Education related services
> > - Agriculture
> > - Finance
> > - Health
> > - public/government
> > - disaster management
> > - Activism (this includes human rights report, election
monitoring,...)
> > - conservation
> >
> > any other category ?
> >
> > About question 2, there are today 4 major ways of delivering content
on
> > mobile phones:
> > using SMS
> > using Voice
> > using a Web browser
> > using a native applications
> >
> > Here again, we should consider having some people investigating each
of
> > these branch.
> > Some of the aspects that would need to be considered
> > - what are the available tools to support apps authoring and/or
> > deployment using the technology
> > - what is the process/cycle for a content provider to develop and
deploy
> > a service
> > - what are the discovery mechanisms for potential users to learn
about
> > new services
> > - what are the requirements and cost of delivering a service
> > - what are the cost of accessing the service
> > - what are the requirements on the service developer (expertise,
> > hardware, software...)
> > - what are the requirements on infrastructure and handset
> > - what are the access challenges and potential strenghts for users
> >
> > the current roadmap document has quite a lot of information about
the
> > last part.
> > Mobilehacking.org has lots of information about sms platform
> > we heard about voikiosk during last teleconference and Arun will
rpovide
> > a summary of it
> > probably further investigation are needed about existing voice
> > experience, and on the mobile web side.
> >
> > About question 3, i don't think there is anything we should do, that
are
> > not covered by the work described in Q1 and Q2 ?
> >
> > About question 4, there are already few experiences in teaching
mobile
> > technologies at universities in Africa. EPROM is the first project
who
> > explored this path (http://eprom.mit.edu/ ). We heard in brazil last
> > june that there are also experiences in Uganda (see
> > http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/papers/MCASD_W3C.pdf)
> > I believe that existing experiences should be investigated. We
should
> > list them and see in which domains (related to Q2 investigation)
they
> > are applied, what are the impact in terms of employment, service
> > deployment,... what are the challenges (maintenance and development
of
> > content, replicability, cost of training teachers,....)
> >
> > So this is my proposal for a potential strategy to develop our
roadmap.
> > I propose we discuss this strategy till next call, and then we start
> > collecting the volunteers on the different task we identify.
> >
> > As soon as we have agreed on htis strategy i will describe it in the
> > roadmap document.
> >
> > cheers
> > Stephane
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