Call for Papers Mobile Web for Social and Economic Development A Special Session at the MOBILE LIFE CONFERENCES and EXHIBITIONS -- mSOCIETY 2008 -- The 1st International Conference on Mobile Society -- EURO mGOV 2008 -- The 3rd European Conference on Mobile Government 15 -19 September 2008, Sheraton Voyager, Antalya, Turkey http://www.mgovernment.org/events/index.html mlife@mgovernment.org Chairs: --------- Stephane Boyera Head of the Mobile Web for Social Development group, W3C Session Description: ------------------------- This session aims at exploring the potential of Mobile Technologies to foster social and economic development. It is a small inter-disciplinary forum gathering web experts, mobile experts, academics from developed and developing regions, NGOs and civil society representatives with field experience and expertise to identify the key issues of exploiting mobile phones and other mobile devices as an ICT-platform. Among the issues, the session will particularly be focusing on - technical issues related to specific types of applications (m- health, mEducation, ...) - technical issues related to the mean of deployment (sms, voice, web,...) - technical issues related to accessibility for illiterate people - Social issues: how to capture the real needs from the targeted populations, how to have a bottom-up approach that will integrate NGOs into international organization agenda and work - Social issues related to empowerment: how to enable local people to master the technology to develop and deploy the applications they need, how to leverage local content and applications development - Social issues related to sustainability, entrepreneurship, Submissions ---------------- Submissions in the form of research papers (max 10 pages) and practice talks (max 1 page) are solicited via the conferences online submission system at the http://www.mgovernment.org/confadmin/confadmin.php Further information on submissions and all about the conferences can be found at http://www.mgovernment.org/events/ Contacts -------------- For all enquiries please write to the session chairs: stephane@w3.org or the conference secreteria mlife@mgovernment.org ------- IBRAHIM KUSHCHU, MBA, MSC., PHD Associate Professor and Director, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK http://www.mgovernment.org ik@mgovernment.org +44 1273 777853 == please visit mLife events www.mgovernment.org/events/