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Steve Bratt's keynote (26 April 2010) at W4A Conference, Raleigh,North Carolina, USA (7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility).See also: http://public.webfoundation.org/2010/04/20100426_W4A_bratt.pdf

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Photo:  Three girls in a computer lab in Brazil.

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Photo: Brown, dry soil

African Sahel:  South side of Sahara Desert. Badly de‐forested, badly degraded land

Global warming, drought, poor land use

Hundred of thousands of people forced to move south to more fertile land or to cities

Some people remained

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Web Foundation visited Gurkina Faso in January and February 2010.

Small numbers of farmer innovators  (pictured here: Yacouba, Sibiri, and NamouaiaSawadogo) stayed in the Sahel  They are creative, persistent, and some were successful ‐‐but in a minority.  Also, no formal education, never used a computer, non‐literate, speaking Moré – a local language.

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Farmer innovators use materials available, such as (from upper right, then clockwise) rows of stones to slow water run‐off, hoes, cow manure

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Technique called Zai ‐ farmer creates holes around existing or new plants, then surrounds the plants with natural fertilizer

Hard work

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Yacouba Sawadogo in front of vegetation he has grown.  Trees can be grown in the near‐desert condistions.  Used for people and livestock food, fertilizer, medicin, firewood, construction wood, crafts.  Trees provide shade, and the right kinds of trees can improve the soil.

http://public.webfoundation.org/2010/01/W4RA/

http://public.webfoundation.org/2010/01/W4RA/Overview.fr.html

Video documentary of Yacouba’s story:  “The Man Who Stopped the Desert” ‐http://www.1080films.co.uk/project‐mwsd.htm

The power of positive deviants:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/29/the_power_of_positive_deviants/

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Growing support from farming extension agents and re‐greening experts from within and outside of region to help spread techniques developed by innovative farmers to the major of other farmers struggling.  Seen here:  Sibiri Sawadogo, farm extension agent from MARP, and Chris Reij from VU University, The Netherlands.

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Using, again, implements that are either available, or not too impossible to find and use … technologies like mobile phones (via voice and Web) and community radio hold promise

For example, we’ve heard that almost every farmer has access to a simple mobile phone.

Namouaia Sawadogo, Sibiri Sawadogo

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(1 Feb 2010):  Group photo of Sibiri Sawadogo, and visitors from Africa Regreening Initiative and the Web Foundation’s first project:  Web‐alliance for Regreening Africa (W4RA)

What can the Web, with the help of the Web community, do to empower people like this farmer innovator and the agricultural extension agents who are trying to spread best practices to hundreds of thousands of farmers in the Sahel?  What barriers stand in the way?

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A decade of ICT growth driven by mobile technologies.

Curves of mobile voice, Internet users, fixed telephone, mobile broadband and fixed broadband growth from 1998 – 2009.

By 2009, 67 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.  Internet around 26/100

Reports:

• http://www.itu.int/ITU‐D/ict/publications/idi/2010/Material/MIS_2010_Summary_E.pdf

• http://www.itu.int/ITU‐D/ict/material/Telecom09_flyer.pdf

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A decade of ICT growth driven by mobile technologies in Africa.

Curves of mobile voice, Internet users, fixed telephone, mobile broadband and fixed broadband growth from 1998 – 2009.

By 2009, 33 mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants.  Internet around 4/100

Full report: http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu‐d/opb/ind/D‐IND‐RPM.AF‐2009‐PDF‐E.pdf

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Web Foundation has conducted about ten visits to Africa in the past year to understand the challenges and opportunities of using the Web, and building a network of people who we can support and work with.

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Web Foundation’s Stephane Boyera, Tim Berners‐Lee and Rosemary Leith with teachers and students at the Kenya School for the Blind

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Web Foundation’s 3 programs:  Web in Society, Web Science and Web Standards, 

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Five groups of people for whom Web accessibility can be challenging:  People with disabilities, challenged associated with aging, reading languages that don’t work well on the Web, with low literacy, and/or with little experience with technology.

Text in graphic for languages says: “This article contains Ethiopic text.Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ethiopic characters.” – from Wikipedia.

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Other stats

Hearing impaired: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs300/en/index.html

Visually impaired: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/

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Pics of WCAG 2.0 specs in English and Korean in background

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http://www.un.org/disabilities/index.asp

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

144 signatories

85 ratifications

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

88 signatories

52 ratifications

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Old age ‐ http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/worldageing19502050/

Bar chart showing percent of population of world, more developed regions and less developed regions aged 60 or older for 1950, 1975, 2000, 2025, 2050.  Percentage increase for all 3 regions.  For example, for the world, the percent of people older than 60 goes from about 8% in 1950 to 20% projected fro 2050. Total population of world in 2050 projected to be 9.3 billion.

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*African Web Survey 2006 http://gii2.nagaokaut.ac.jp/gii/blog/lopdiary.php/lopdiary.php?catid=154&blogid=8

Ethnologue, 2008/2009 ‐ http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?b

oIt is estimated that 1.8 billion people speak English, but that’s not everyone:

o6,909 known living languages

o3,701 languages are first languages for groups of >10,000

o0.5% of African Web sites are in native African languages

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Graph of top ten languages on the Internet/Web vs. graph of top ten languages in the world by number of native speakers

For example, Hindi/Urdu and Bengali are in the top ten spoken languages, but not in the top ten on the Web.

Languages on the Web:

* www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

languages in the world:languages in the world: 

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

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Graphic shows circles representing languages, with the size of the circle proportional to the number of native speakers.

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Mention Raising the Floor: http://raisingthefloor.net/about

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Pictures along base of slide:  Girl with phone.  doctor with mobile devide.  seven hands on a globe, smart phone and computer, children in a computer labco pute , c d e a co pute ab

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