Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT ('Digital World Forum') is a FP7 European project focusing on the use of ICT to leverage economic development in Africa and Latin America.
Providing minimal services (health, education, business, government, etc.) to rural communities and under-privileged populations is of major importance to improve people lives, and to sustain development. Using ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) would be the easiest and possibly only way to develop and deploy those services.
Digital World Forum will explore how to take advantage of the new paradigm of low-cost technologies in broadband infrastructure and devices, as well as the explosion of mobile telephony to bridge the digital divide and connect the unconnected. The aim of Digital World Forum is to make a state-of-the-art in these domains, identify the challenges, and propose a roadmap to tackle them. A particular focus will be on involving local actors from industry, research and academic communities and non-governmental organizations who have field expertise and who will provide feedback on the key factors of adoption.
[April - June 2008] Upcoming DWF events
Written by Marie Thursday, 10 April 2008 16:47
- e-STATS - Symposium de las Tecnologías para la Acción Social, 24-25 April 08, Malaga, Spain
- IST-Africa 2008 Conference & Exhibition, 7-9 May 08, Windhoek, Namibia
- W3C Workshop on the Role of MobileTechnologies in Fostering Social Development, 2-3 June 08, São Paulo, Brazil
W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development
Written by Stephane Thursday, 28 February 2008 16:29
W3C is proud to announce, as part of the WP1 of Digital World Forum Project, the organization of a public Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development. The event will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2-3 June 2008.
All the information are available at http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/
Read the 11 March 2008 press release.
Stephane