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PROJECT 'S DESCRIPTION
Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT ('Digital World Forum') is a FP7 European project focusing on the use of ICT to leverage economic development in Africa and Latin America.
Providing minimal services (health, education, business, government, etc.) to rural communities and under-privileged populations is of major importance to improve people lives, and to sustain development. Using ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) would be the easiest and possibly only way to develop and deploy those services.
Final DWF Event in Brussels
You are invited to participate in this (free of charge) one-day event, on Wednesday 30 September 2009, where the Digital World Forum project will present its outcome and findings. Come learn, discuss and network!
Please register online.
Next DWF Events
[May-Sept. 2009] Upcoming DWF events
- DWF Workshop: Low-cost Broadband Access and Infrastructure, 4-5 May 2009, Kampala, Uganda
- IST-Africa 2009, 6-8 May 2009, Uganda (see DWF presentations details)
- Open Mobile Summit 09, 11 June 09, London, UK
- DWF Workshop: Applying Low Cost Information Access Device, 8 September 2009, Brussels, Belgium
- DWF Final Event, 30 September 2009, Brussels, Belgium
Latest DWF News
Report published: Workshop on low-cost broadband access and infrastructure
The DWF workshop on Low-Cost Broadband Access and Infrastructure was held on May 4-5, in Kampala, Uganda. The meeting attracted participants with a wide variety of backgrounds (academia, research institutes, operators, regulators, manufacturers), who shared challenging ideas about the future of broadband in emerging markets. The project team will build on the discussions and presentations that took place in Kampala to build a technological roadmap; the document will aim at defining relevant initiatives to be undertaken in the near to medium future so that broadband Internet can be deployed on a large scale in Africa and Latin America.
Learn more by downloading the summary of the workshop.
W3C Opens Senegal Office
W3C announces today the launch of the W3C Senegal Office, hosted by the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP), attached to the UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), in Dakar, Senegal. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the French-speaking community, especially neighboring countries in West Africa. The opening ceremony will take place 27 May, and is integrated to the eLearning Africa conference to be held in Dakar. Read the press release and learn more about the W3C Offices, which assist W3C with promotion efforts in local languages, help broaden W3C’s geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
[May-Sept. 2009] Upcoming DWF events
- DWF Workshop: Low-cost Broadband Access and Infrastructure, 4-5 May 2009, Kampala, Uganda
- IST-Africa 2009, 6-8 May 2009, Uganda (see DWF presentations details)
- Open Mobile Summit 09, 11 June 09, London, UK
- DWF Workshop: Applying Low Cost Information Access Device, 8 September 2009, Brussels, Belgium
- DWF Final Event, 30 September 2009, Brussels, Belgium
POSTPONED!! Workshop on Applying Low Cost Information Access Devices
DWF's workshop on Applying Low Cost Information Access Devices is now postponed to Tuesday 8 September 09. If you are interested in the low-cost production domain, and if you are targeting to penetrate emerging markets with the goal to contribute accelerating development, you are invited to participate in this one day free event.
Please register online.
