The Spanish W3C Office organises an Isabel distributed seminar for Latin America, where W3C experts will provide an overview of relevant present and future of W3C technologies.

The seminar will be a virtual event where participants distributed all around the world will participate over the Internet by means of the Isabel aplication. Isabel creates a virtual auditorium where speakers, chairs or attendees can interact from the auditoriums where they attend or from their desktops. To set up a remote site follow the instructions for participation. Participating sites will be included in this list as they confirm participation.

The event videos are already available for download at Isabel Plaza Repository. Also available on streaming: 

Streaming Windows Media
Streaming Flash Video

PROGRAM

15:00 CET. Openning and participating sites round
           Apertura y ronda por los centros participantes 
	   Video streaming of first part

15:10 CET. Overview of W3C activities
           Panoramica de las actividades del W3C
              Daniel Dardailler: Associate Chair for Europe and Director 
              of International Relations and Offices. Presentation

15:45 CET. Mobile Web in Developing Countries
           Web Móvil en países en desarrollo.
              Stéphane Boyera: W3C Device Independence Working Group 
              Lead and W3C Mobile Web in Developing Countries Lead. Presentation

16:20 CET. Break / Descanso

16:40 CET. eGovernment and the Web 
           Gobierno electrónico y la Web
	   José Manuel Alonso: W3C e-Government Lead. Presentation
	   Video streaming of second part 

17:20 CET. Video on the Web
           Video en la Web
           Philippe Le Hegaret: Architecture Domain Leader Presentation

18:00 Closure / Cierre


Mobile web in developing countries will be one of the topics in the seminar where audience could know more about mobile web and its importance in developing countries. While more and more people are using the Web, a significant number of people still do not have regular, effective access and ability to use digital technologies. This is known as the "Digital Divide". It is fundamental to understand the needs and the expectations of the people, and the specific challenges and issues of accessing the Web from a mobile phone as a primary and often sole platform, so that the potential of resolving the gap becomes reality. For this purpose, W3C, with the support of its Mobile Web Initiative, decided to investigate this area and to understand what should be its role in participating in the effort of bridging the digital divide.

Two new areas within W3C, e-Government and video on the web, are also included in the program. The Web has become the main channel for governments to deliver services to citizens and Web technologies are crucial in the relationships between governments, and governments and industry. W3C aims to understand specific government and citizens’ needs related to eGovernment services, identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies.

More and more we are seeing video on the Web used for advertising, enterprise collaboration, entertainment, product reviews, and other applications. Make video a first class Web citizen, including making it easy to create, link to and from, describe, and search is one of the W3C goals. Making video a first class Web citizen will involve addressing issues of
accessibility, internationalization, privacy, digital rights, performance, and device-independence.