Mobile Web for Social Development

Mobile phones: the most promising platform

• to develop and deploy eServices (education, health, banking, etc.)

• > 2.7+billion of mobile phones in the world

• >80% of the world population covered by a GSM network

Mobile Web: unleashing the power of mobile phones

Mobile Web:

• No interoperability problems

• Web standards widely adopted

• Cheap/free hosting • Development platform

• Discoverability through portals and search engines • Enhanced interaction through forms/voice/multimodal

Join us! Get involved!

• How to make the Web relevant, usable, and

useful for rural communities and underprivileged

populations ?

• W3C organizes a workshop on the Role of Mobile

Technologies in Fostering Social Development,

on 2-3 June 2008, in Sao Paulo, Brazil

• http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/

• Contact Stéphane Boyera: boyera@w3.org