<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Disclaimer: Please do not construe this as a direction that XSCE should be taking, but more of a crazy idea I am exploring on the side.</div><div><br></div><div>In developing nations, the most common communication device is the mobile phone. It is atleast a magnitude more common any other electronic communication device. If one were to look at building technology solutions for education in less developed nations of this world, a cellphone would seem like the perfect thing to piggyback upon.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On the other hand, this would seem like saying lets shut down sugar and move to android, because it's everywhere, something I'm not sure is the best thing to do. (So I am conflicted about it).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cutting to the chase:</div><div>1. Is there any overlap between the xsce vision *as you see it* and supporting mobile phones.</div><div>2a. If the answer to that is a yes, are there standards or software that might help make XSCE content and services available on basic mobile phones. We will probably forego 80% of the value XSCE provides, but that 20% might be valuable.</div>
<div>2b. What kind of service standards would be most suitable to build upon? WAP, SMS, Voice (navigation)? Most basic mobile phones today have a WAP browser.</div><div><br></div><div>The more I think, the more it "feels" that this may not be the right thing for the XSCE project, but still would like to have an understanding of the challenges involved. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Anish</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. this email is a result of talking to a few people over the past few weeks and hearing from them again and again the sheer availability of mobile phones. At the same time, I'm sure many people would have already tried to figure out this space (maybe I'm trying to do just that).</div>
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