W3C Outlines Roadmap for Realizing Web for Social Development

W3C today outlines a roadmap for extending the Web to rural and underprivileged communities in developing countries. The Mobile Web for Social Development (MW4D) Roadmap examines the challenges to deploying and accessing development-oriented services and surveys the technology landscape for meeting those challenges. The document identifies two major challenges:

1. barriers to Web access faced by underprivileged communities in developing countries, and
2. barriers to authoring and deploying Web content, and accessing information, applications, and services on mobile phones.

The roadmap was published by the Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group, part of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI). Read the press release and learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI).