----------------------- Name, organization and contact details ----------------------- Name: Haruo Kurasawa Organization: Nippon Television Network Corporation E-mail: kurasawa.haruo@gmail.com ----------------------- Participant’s interest ----------------------- As of November, 2010, the number of household television sets in use is already exceeds 97 million in Japan. Since almost all digital TV sets have browser capability (based on XHTML1.1), a universal service using browsers on TV is getting more and more viable all over the land. Now digital TVs are taking the center of digital home networks, and it is expected that they will be used not only as a receiver for digital broadcasting but also as a central server for variety of entertainment and essential information for everyday life. Also it is strongly desired that TV sets will be better integrated with Web technologies, e.g., HTML5 and get even richer presentation capability. We believe our knowledge and expertise on digital TV broadcasting technology in Japan should be useful to this workshop and we should be able to provide various use cases based on our long-term experience. We are very interested in what kind of roles our expertise on digital broadcasting would play in the context of Web standardization. -------------- Point of View -------------- 1. Use cases from the perspective of TV as a client device for eGov ------------------------------------------------------------------- e-Government has been and continues to be a long-term challenge in many countries, both from the viewpoint of data that governments provide to the Web and broadcasters, and from the viewpoint of CE devices sufficiently easy to use and attractive for users to keep using. Regarding governments' data, the eGov activity in W3C has been bringing semantic web technologies to public sector, and it gradually starts to influence the business in private sector. Regarding CE devices, smart phones and slate devices seem now bringing e-Gove applications and services to life. In such circumstances, to study smarter TV from the perspective of a client device for eGov will bring us new use cases, and those use cases will lead us to the smarter design of both future TV and future eGov. 2. TV and publicness --------------------- In case of natural disasters, usual infrastructures for communications like telephones and mobile phones might not be available. So providing disaster information is one of the very important roles of broadcasting as a public service. Although we decided not to make a presentation in the workshop, we believe that our cooperation with participants from many other countries and industries will make the workshop more fruitful.