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.WWTW.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
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> 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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