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