- From: Chevrollier, N.G. (Nicolas) <nicolas.chevrollier@tno.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:15:40 +0100
- To: <public-mw4d@w3.org>
Dear all, In line with what was discussed during our last confcall, it could be interesting to look more in-depth into non-technical factors that make an MW4SD innovation sustainable (reaching social impact, financially sustainable, environmental friendly). Few questions that come to my mind and where surely the people on the list could contribute to: 1- For an innovation to be adopted a sense of ownership has to be created both in the development community and by the end-users. How this is done for MW4SD applications/services? Do the developers co-create with the end-users? How the MW4SD incubators work in Africa or Latin America? When multinationals and organizations outside of emerging regions are involved, what type of partnership is used? 2- What are the models of financing MW4SD applications/services? There are some well-know examples (e.g, mobile banking) but what about MW4SD applications/services in the health, education or agriculture sectors? What makes them financially sustainable? Other sectors (energy) have studies on market-based approaches at the base of the pyramid for instance. See the Tuesday keynote speakers of this conference (http://www.bopimpact.nl/Impact_of_BoP_Ventures/Downloads.html,) we co-organized in November. This is one possible approach. What about in the MW4SD arena? Great if we could exchange on these points in the new year to come! Best, Nicolas -------------------------------------------- Dr Nicolas Chevrollier TNO Information and Communication Technology Room BA 206 Brassersplein 2, 2612 CT Delft, Tel: +31 15 285 73 54 mob: +31 62 247 24 96 -------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: public-mw4d-request@w3.org [mailto:public-mw4d-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of Stephane Boyera > Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:44 PM > To: public-mw4d@w3.org > Subject: Minutes of December 21 meeting > > available at http://www.w3.org/2009/12/21-mw4d-minutes.html > See you all on January 4 > Best wishes for the break > > Steph > -- > Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org > W3C +33 (0) 5 61 86 13 08 > BP 93 fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 22 > F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, > France This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html
Received on Wednesday, 23 December 2009 20:16:15 UTC