- From: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:50:54 +0200
- To: public-mw4d@w3.org
Hi, as promised, here is a first shot of a potential set of questions to consider to define the framework in which this group is working. I propose that we develop this framework in an iterative way. Let's first agree and the different section, and then consider each section in a another round. So here my proposal which is here mostly to foster discussions. I try for each section to give my view of its content. 1- Vision What is the vision behind this group. My view is the following It is quite obvious that mobile phone are in the field already, in the pocket of lots of people, and also accessible to lots of others who don't own one. However, for now they are mostly considered and used as phone, and not as an ICT platform on which services could be deployed. But the proof-of-concept has been already demonstrated with all the success stories we heard about about m-banking, agriculture services... So the potential is clearly here, it has been demonstrated, but how can we move to the next stage where it will be as easy to develop and deploy new content or applications on mobile phones as it is e.g. today to do it on the Web. 2- Targets Here it is important to summarize the discussions we had on the mailing-list on the fact that each developing countries have all the different segments of the society from the very healthy one which have similar way of living and expectation than any westerners, till the rural poor or underprivileged. That said, talking about social and economic development, it concerns more rural poor communities and under-privileged populations for which specific services might improve their lives, and my opinion is that this should be the segment we target. 3- Stakeholders What should be the participants in this group, why they should be involved (what they would bring to the group) and why they would be interested to join (what they could take out of the group work) NGOs International Organization Mobile Industry Academics (from developing and developed regions) Government Representatives Regulators Entrepreneurship specialist other suggestions ? 3- Goals a- Identify the current practices, potential and issues/challenges in deploying applications for social and economic development on mobile phones. We may want to structure this part in different topics we mentionned in the teleconference: *Technology* - existing ways to deploy content, domain of applicability, and issues - network aspect Here again we would need to identify the different ways of deploying content, and define a methodology to analyse each in an homogeneous way. but this could be refined in the next round of discussion. *End-user* what are the specific challenges and issues to make relevant, usable and useful applications for the targeted users - HCI: targeting people without past ict experience and without technological background have surely implications on the way design interface and interaction what are the existing issues and potential solutions. - illiteracy: what is the problem ? what are the goals here ?... - internationalization: same here - type of applications:we might want to explore what are the major domains or areas where services will be most useful to people (health, education,....) and the specific opportunities and constraints. *Context* - education/capacity building: what kind of curiculum could disseminate the knowledge in society. what re the different potential targeted candidates (ngos ? student ? in which domain ?...) - tools/toolbox: what exists, and what should exist for who (for which profile) - regulation: what are regulatory context that could prevent creation of new content and services, or at the opposite that could leverage and enable them. - capture of ict needs: how do you identify the needs a specific community would have? b- Develop resources - information of mobile infrastructure and device characteristics - information about available guidelines/ best practices/literature/training content... - information about available software/toolkit/solutions - other suggestion ? 4- expected output What is the epected output of this group in the 10-12 month timeframe ? I would consider a full success if at the end we have: - a handbook for those who would like to develop and deploy ict services on mobile phones to do select the right technologies - a set of ressources to help in deploying services - a roadmap for W3C and potentially other organizations to launch appropriate actions to tackle identified issues Stephane -- Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org W3C +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 34 BP 93 fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 22 F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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