W3C

MW4D bi-monthly call

05 Jul 2010

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Maxime Froumentin (Web Foundation), Stephanie Rieger (Invited Expert), Stephane Boyera (W3C/Web Foundation), Christelle Scharff (Ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar), Shwetank Dixit (Opera), Raphael Dard (Intracen), Nicolas Chevrollier (TNO), THIOUNE Mohamet Lamine (Ecole Superieure Polytechnique de Dakar), Betty Purwandari (IRC-University of Southampton)
Chair
Steph
Scribe
Raphael

Contents


introduction

Steph: intros himself
... Ken can't join today

Max. Web Foundation employee

<Steph> Raphael Dard: international trade center, enrteprise competitiveness, drinving tradeathand

<Steph> market prices, etc

Nicolas runs a group on ICT4D

focus on BoP

<Steph> base of the pyramid

<Steph> Stephanie Rieger (uk) user experience designer

focus on mobile and mobile web

Ms. Sharff: works on a project called mobile Senegal

Shwetan: works at Opera softwares

Thioune: from Senegal, working in Univ

Logistics

Steph: how often would you like to "meet"

?

Steph: what about the timing?

raphael: OK with me.

twice a month, maybe better

Steph: first and third week of the month

I have seen "monthly" on the website

<Steph> ACTION: Stephane to update website and check with mailing-list [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/07/05-mw4d-minutes.html#action03]

MW4D IG OVerview

Steph: gives an overview of the group
... issue: lack of locally relevant content
... seeking solutions to address this issue
... the group worked on this 15 months

which resulted in a roadmap http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mw4d-roadmap-20091208/

<Steph> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-mw4d-roadmap-20091208/

people, do help typing in!

Steph: with the new group, we can work on issues underlined in the roadmap

<Steph> http://www.w3.org/2010/05/MW4Dcharter2.1.html

Steph: do read this charter

moving from a general point of view to a more specific approach

2nd theme: Tools

Steph: there is still a need to collect info on existing tools
... we can work at building a repository which includes tool evaluations

3rd domain: Business Models

Steph: sustainability is the aim, buiness models are the mens

means

4th domain: impact analysis

<Steph> adoption methods

OK

reading http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D

sorry

Steph: 5th domain: adoption factors. A still very limited area which needs further research

Steph, can't hear you anymore...

<Steph> can you hear me ?

<Steph> recalling

<nicolas> ok it is not my cell then I was about to ask

OK

<Steph> clearer ways of engagement would be useful

<Steph> will achieve more things and will come with more people

<nicolas> dead line and sub-group of people

<Steph> focus on specific area

<chrisscharff> what is the url of the wiki?

<Steph> http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/

<shwetank> me is from India (also a devoloping country)

<Steph> raphael: use teleconf time to talk about a specific project ?

<Steph> collaborative intelligence

got hung up

<Steph> we loste u Rapahel

calling back

please go on

maybe we can use the collective intelligence we group here

to discuss about an existing project and give advices

share challenges

<ingom> hello

Nicolas: yes, as long as it is linked with one of our topics

(5)

<Steph> stephane: focus on the specific points we are interested in

<Steph> raphael: give advices to projects

<ingom> there was a power cut my battery will discharge sorry

<Steph> and be ack for that

Work organization and task repartition

raphael: if the group regularly gives inputs for one project, credit could be also given to the group "formally", when the project ends

Steph: suggestion to have different discussion drivers

in different calls

Steph: are there other interests from group members?
... two particular aspects of interest to Web Foundation

Agriculture is one

through a project being conducted currently

the other topic in in Ghana, on a mobile training lab

to develop apps and services

the idea is to give support on how to reach users and develop sustainable business models

Nicolas: the focus is on business modeling and adoption methodology

in the ICD4D space

shwetank: business modeling in mobile area

and impact analysis

<Steph> Raphael: project in Benin

<maxf> raphael: working on a project in Benin

<Steph> pineapple export chain

<maxf> raphael: we'll see if it's (?) something which is new or if it is already part of the supply chain

happy to update the group on how it goes

since we are still at the inception phase

Steph: on the use of the wiki

we can use this place to gather literature for these different areas

feel free to share papers and links on the mailing list

<scribe> ACTION:Stephane add two wiki pages on the missing areas [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/07/05-mw4d-minutes.html#action04]

<Steph> (when you do aciton please put the name of the action owner)

<Steph> july 19

<shwetank> fine with me

<maxf> [works for me]

<chrisscharff> fine

<Steph> Resolution: next meeting: July 19

<betty> OK. Hopefully the UK no will be OK on July 19.

I'll try to join from Benin

Thank you

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: Stephane add two wiki pages on the missing areas [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/07/05-mw4d-minutes.html#action04]
[NEW] ACTION: Stephane to update website and check with mailing-list [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2010/07/05-mw4d-minutes.html#action03]
 
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