Activity Report 2006 Cooperating for Excellence in Research

Its aim was to understand the people's needs and expectations, 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 divide becomes reality. [...] This workshop was the second of a series of strategic workshops A Specific Support Actions funded in Asia in the frame of the Grid@Asia initiative by the Information Society Technologies programme of the • The third Grid@Asia and GFK 2006 International Joint Workshop European Union Some 150 representatives from European and Asian research institutes, industry and ministries of research participate. [...] The DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries intends to advance the field in these new and exciting directions, with the aim of progressing to the development of the next-generation Digital Library system. [...] The activities of a Working Group can be divided into several areas: workshops to build the community and maintain its vibrancy, projects to move forward the R&D in the particular area of the working group, and human mobility (internal mobility and fellows) to assure the appropriate trained human capital. [...] Furthermore, the work of the ERCIM WG UI4ALL has con- As of the end of 2006, following the successful 9th Workshop, tributed to the establishment of the International Scientific the time has come to consider the mission of this Working Forum 'Towards an Information Society for All' (ISF-IS4ALL; Group fully accomplished.