Internet for everyone towards
the sustainable development
Distributed Services to Conserve Resources
Stop the Re-invention of a Wheel
FURUSE Nobuhiro PhD
Overview
GDP is the indicator employed exclusively in the
20th century toevaluate and compare the
status of a country.
OverviewCritical Development Issues
• What is Development?• How can we compare levels of
development?• What does it take to make
development sustainable?
Our Common Future
Sustainable Development
Caring For the Earth (1991)
Information for
Decision-Making
• Bridging a data gap• Improving information availability
New Impact Factor - Digital Divide on Information
Technologies
• Developed Country Occupied 88% of the Internet Users
UNDEP - Human Development Report 1999
E-mail ServiceMost Fundamental and Traditional Services on
Internet ...
Raised International Tax Proposal in 1991
Practical Resolutions (1)
Basic Approach for Reduction of Digital Divide
Users ViewpointsSaving Cost of Access
Practical Resolutions (2)
• Linkage utilization of opened server resources in the developed countries
• Discovery good starting points for your special purposes
Practical Resolutions (3)
Indirect Connection between User and WWWs
(You can get www contents ( text and graphics!) by e-mail.)
Direct Connection between User and WWWs
SMTPOff-line
HTTPOn-line
HTTP On-lineUser
WWWW3mailServer
WWW
Required Text/Graphics
Required Text/Graphics
E-mail Access Good Starting Points
• A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email (Kaitlin Duck Sherwood)
• Accessing the Internet by Email ( Dr.Bob Rankin)
Example
When you will send your query by e-mail to get web
content send ...
http://www.google.com/search?q=grid+&site=search&hl=en&safe=off&output=search for
a w3mail gateway service
Result
Result by Direct Web Browsing
Handle for Binary Data
Graphic Utilities' Site & Version FAQ v.022
(Brian D. Stark)
Next Generation Services
• Based on Mobile Agent Technologies
• Distributed and Load Balanced Technologies
Topic : Cellar Phone in Japan
• Trend: i-mode ( cHTML )• Key Concept : improvement in
the literacy and the userbility base on the national character
User Centered Design New Trend
• Web Accessibility• Usable Web
Literature for More Learning
• S.Nanthikesan: Trends in Digital Divide, 2000, Human Development Report, 2001 background Papers
Acknowledgements
• Arthur Secret for his work of developing original source code of agora(w3mail) during 1993-1995 at w3.org
