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W3C Mobile for Social Development Group
Ken Banks is co-chairing a W3C group for mobile web for social development. A recent Economist article, “The Meek Shall Inherit the Web“, quite articulately discusses this new group and Internet delivery via mobile phones generally. It makes a case for the growing demand for mobile web content, covers past successes, and cautions that web access will continue to be mediated through the simple mobile phone interface for quite some time. It also advocates the use of business to ensure effective development and sustainability.
In China, for example, over 73m people, or 29% of all internet users in the country, use mobile phones to get online.
One conclusion from the workshop was that promoting social development through the mobile web will mean engaging with businesses.