Welcome to the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Group

Dear all,

This is the first mail i'm sending to this list to officially launch the 
W3C Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group.

For those i never met, my name is Stephane Boyera, W3C Staff, and i'm 
co-chairing this group. the second co-chair is Ken Banks from kiwanja.net.
Let me first welcome all the subscribers of this list.

This list will serve as the primary discussion channel within the group. 
It is publicly archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mw4d/

Ressources and documents will be, obviously, available on the Web, 
linked from the group home page http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/
There are already a set of documents that i encourage people to read 
(see http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/#docs ). don't forget also to read teh 
charter of the group (http://www.w3.org/2007/12/MW4D/charter1.1.html )

As explained in the participation page 
(http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/participation.html), there will be two 
types of people in the group: the official members that are listed in 
the member section (see 
http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=42462&public=1 ) and those 
who are not official members.
The official members will be active contributors, participate in regular 
teleconferences (normally twice a month), and will be acknowledged as 
such in the documents the group will develop.
Those who are on the list but not official members will be able to 
follow what's going on, and comments on the different actions and 
documents the group will produce.
Anybody can decide to be offical member or not depending on the 
involvment people plan to have.

We are planning to have the first teleconference before the end of the 
month, to give a bit more time to people to join the group.
Some of us are also just getting out of the W3C Workshop on the role of 
mobile technologies in Fostering social development i organized.
I encourage people to have a look at the different papers (see the 
latest news on this subject at 
http://www.w3.org/blog/MWIDC/2008/06/04/workshops_on_the_role_of_mobile_technolo 
)
Participants of the workshop are in the process of writing the executive 
summary that will be discussed within this group.


Till we fix the date of the first teleconference, i would like to 
encourage people to let other know what they are expecting from this group.

Best,
Stephane
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France

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