Stephane Boyera, Web Foundation/W3C
Program Manager/Chair of of the W3C Mobile Web for Social Development group

Title of my talk: Mobile Web for Social Development

Short Bio:
Stephane has played an important role in the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation since 2008. 
In January 2009, he became Program Manager, responsible for the design and implementation of 
a new foundation program targeted at leveraging the power of Web technologies to empower 
people in parts of the world where they need it most.

Previously, Stephane joined the World Wide Web Consortium in 1995. 
Leading the W3C Device Independence Working Group from 2001 until the end of 2005, 
he was a key participant in the development and launch of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. 
Stephane also took part in the management of the Voice and Multimodal Activities. 
From 2006, he led W3C's work on the Mobile Web for Social Development, 
which is looking at how to extend the frontier of the Web on mobile phone to make it relevant, 
usable and useful for rural communities and under-privileged populations of developing countries. 
Before W3C and the Web Foundation, he worked in Artificial Intelligence (knowledge acquisition and modeling) at INRIA.

Stephane graduated from ESSTIN (degree in telecommunications and network engineering), in Sophia-Antipolis, France.

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