- From: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:17:08 +0200
- To: Janusz Lukasiak <janusz@eumx.net>
- Cc: public-mw4d@w3.org
>> 3- Stakeholders > Add 'internet providers': pricing, caching etc. Well i could add that category, but how internet providers fit in the mobile world ? >> *End-user* >> targeting >> people without past ict experience and without technological >> background > Aren't we making mountains out of molehills here? What percentage > of internet users in the Western world have past ict experience and/or > technological background? The whole technology is at most one generation > old, so we are not talking about something deeply ingrained in any > culture. Every contests provider claims (with varying degrees of > truthfulness) that its website is easy to navigate for everybody.... ok so i need to elaborate a bit. Again, let's don't forget about the context which is mobile. Example around the Web: so far all the browsers which have been developed for mobile phones have focused on reproducing the exact same look and feel as browser on desktop pc so that people would not be lost. But are those interfaces really natural on phones ? those who never used a browser on pc, don't care about the similarities. Do they care eg about the menu ? do they care about the adress bar ?... Same for aplicatin and content UI. There is a lot of work going on in this field (aka HCI4D) and we shuold not overlook it. > >> - 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,....) > There is nothing wrong with collecting any sort of information, but > for what practical purpose? > Can we honestly say what's of interest > to pearl fishers in Sri Lanka and llama farmers in Peru, apart from > some generic terms like health & education? Shouldn't the contents be left to > local market forces and entrepreneurs?? Big web success stories (eBay, > FaceBook, YouTube etc) were not created because a group of wise experts > decided they should be created. i tend to agree with you here, but there are also a bunch of services around education, health, governments services that are the reponsabilities of government, and for now they are not considering the mobile platform as a potential delivery channel. So they are investing e.g. millions in developing egovernment framework, and developing services to their citizens, without realizing that these services are unreachable by most of their population. So one of our goals is to raise awareness of the pontential of the mobile platform. Stephane > Janusz Lukasiak > > > -- 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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