Title: Assesment of Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap
Author: Katrin Verclas
Source: MobileActive.org
Date (published): 16/11/2009
Date (accessed): 30/11/2009
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
The document is long and dense at times, but highlights a few noteworthy trends and developments. As with any product developed by committee (and a small committee, in this case - no more than four or five people during the bi-monthly phone calls and drafting process, none of them actual NGO practitioners) this document is lacking specificity and actual relevant use cases, tending to be too esoteric to be useful.
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We applaud this first attempt, however, to solidify some of the wide-ranging discussion and develop a framework that, even if not quite adequate in process and presentation, nonetheless serves as a beginning on which to build on in future (and less time-consuming) iterations.
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Title: APC's assessment of the fourth Internet Governance Forum, Sharm El-Sheikh, 15-18 November 2009
Author Editor:
Pages: 7 pp.
Publisher: Association for Progressive Communications
Date (published): 26/11/2009
Date (accessed): 30/11/2009
Type of information: official statement
Language: English
On-line access: yes (pdf)
Abstract:
"This year the fourth internet governance forum was playing it safe – perhaps because next year could be its last – but we still saw real progress. Privacy no longer plays second fiddle to security, people’s rights online are recognised as central by all sides. Social networking was the new star centre stage. There are still too few women and people of colour but participants are getting younger which is a good sign. Next year APC hopes for an IGF focusing on development and human rights and looking to the future. "
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Title: Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap
Author: Stéphane Boyera
Source: W3C Interest Group Note
Publisher: Mobile Web for Social Development Interest Group
Date (published): 17/11/2009
Date (accessed): 30/11/2009
Type of information: technical note
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
This document is the heart of the MW4D IG work. Its purpose is to understand the current challenges of deploying development-oriented services on mobile phones, evaluate existing technologies, and identify the most promising directions to lower the barriers of developing, deploying and accessing services on mobile phones and thereby creating an enabling environment for more social-oriented services to appear.
This document is divided into two major parts. The first part presents the major challenges today for both developing and accessing mobile services, potential ways to bridge them with existing tools, technologies and infrastructure, and potential research directions to follow to provide a more comprehensive resolution or solution. The second part focuses on presenting the major technologies and the major options existing today to deploy content and applications on mobile phones. For each of these technologies, the document presents a short analysis of the technology's potential and the requirements in terms of infrastructure, devices, targeted end-users, and costs associated with implementation and delivery.

Title: SMS Interconnect Fees
Author: Steve Song
Source: Many Possibilities blog
Date (published): 20/11/2009
Date (accessed): 30/11/2009
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
An interesting offshoot of my investigation in to Fair Mobile statistics was the discovery that some African operators charge an interconnect fee for SMS messages. Now interconnect fees are a topic of hot debate at the moment here in South Africa. Interconnection Fees are the charges that operators levy to terminate calls from other operators on their network.

Title: Fair Mobile – Some data
Author: Steve Song
Source: Many Possibilities blog
Date (published): 09/11/2009
Date (accessed): 30/11/2009
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
Here is a first stab at putting together an index that relates the cost of mobile services to income at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. I found some ILO data on minimum wage that covers 24 African countries and a I found a couple more by googling.