Web should provide useful technologies: Abdul Kalam

With the world wide web (www) emerging as an agent of societal transformation, the future of the web is going to shift from connecting the corporate to connecting the individual in the rural societies, thanks to new mobile technologies, said former president APJ Abdul Kalam while speaking at the 20th International World Wide Web Conference today in Hyderabad.

“The Web community should focus on developing technologies that can provide useful information to the masses on the mobile platform using the latest 3G and 4G technologies. The world community will look for how a mobile device can provide integrated solutions of 3G or 4G applications to people in their mother tongue,” he added.

The emergence of 3G and 4G technologies provide the perfect opportunity to link up demand for bandwidth coming from villagers and the supply coming from 3G and 4G technologists.

“4G offers a vast range of bandwidth and societal application, particularly involving farmers and villagers who are less empowered. So, there is a need for more bandwidth. This means that a fisherman will be in a position to get advance information about the sea conditions and locations of abundant fish. For a farmer, this means access to prices of agriculture produce at various markets in the country and also their demand,” he said.

According to Kalam, the web has to transform to meet such challenges and over time, the web will offer access without any barriers of language, caste, creed or location.

Kalam also called for making the mobile a personal authentication device and stressed on the need to make all money transactions and micro payments through mobile phones highly secured.