Bi-monthly MW4D IG Teleconference

Approval of last meeting minutes

http://www.w3.org/2008/12/15-mw4d-minutes.html

<kiwanja> OK

approved

action item review

Stephane to schedule a presentation by adesina about a m-health project

Stephane: done for today, but Adesina missing, so will reschedule it for next call

raphael to send a summary of the project review in liberia

Lauri to send info about unesco project

Lauri: will do this week

stephane to investigate how to get profile of people

from the group

stephane: looked at that, not possible for now, but things might change in a near future

AOB

Lauri: interesting info from ericsson. will send a link to nokia magazine with related links

Nicolas: info about GSM Association

<nicolasC> http://www.gsmworld.com/our-work/development-fund/

Report about m4d conference in sweden december 08

nicolas: multi-tracks, one on network, one on m4d

lots of people from africa

keynote from gsma dev funds lots of interesting numbers

keynote from microsoft focus on available spectrum from tv analogic

nicolas: also interesting panel with ericsson

nice gathering of people, with different angle, policy, business, technologies good mix of people

betty: uri ?

<nicolasC> http://m4d.humanit.org/

thanks !

Lauri: in nokia, we are also active in hte frequence recup from tv

working with ITU on this topic

<betty> Thank you very much Nicolas :-)

lauri: very good document on ITU site aboutthis issue

ITU proposes rules, and governments have to implement the rules, but sometimes there are discrepancy between the 2

Roadmap

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mw4d/2008Nov/0054.html

http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/Stories

http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/roadmap

ken: i will put my name in some area

Nicolas: overlapping sections

than also some other aspects like energy, should we go that deep ?

steph: i believe we are focusing on mobile phones as ict platform

supposing that using mobile phones is already acknowledged

Renjish: we should recongnize in the challenges section that there are other challenges that are not related to the use of mobile phones to access the internet

nicolas: makes sense

steph: regulation and policy ?

nicolas: not part of this category, like energy

Ken: i believe Jeffs send info about regulation issues, we will have to decide to include or not

stephane: maybe we will decide later, depending on the contribution

surely we should recongize that's a challenge that might impact hte overall ecosystem

stephane: other factors ?

nicolas: about 20 issues i listed

<scribe> ACTION: Nicolas to send a link to the list of issues he already identified, some related to mobile internet some not [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/01/05-mw4d-minutes.html#action01]

stephane: how did you build this list ?

nicolas: part of an eu project with the space agency. at the beginning of the project, we did a risk analysis including these factors

will sen dlinks to the project and to the deliverables

AoB

Stephane: deadline for W3C workshop http://www.w3.org/2008/10/MW4D_WS/

12 january, next monday, let me kno wif you plan to submit somthing or need more time, members of the group are invtied to join

Stephane: next Call: January 19

<kiwanja> steph - will email later