Web based, runs on any browser, any computer,
anywhere, thin client, connected from any service
provider. Info-have-nots are one (but not the only one)
key user population throughout.
Essentially a mail service but communication media
defined as broadly as technology allows - text-to-speech
phone access, contributory voice mail? debate
needed.
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Identity confirmed through:
- "passport"
space editable live on-line;
- personal
"footprinting" of behaviour;
- membership
of communities - family, peers, school, sport,
interest - indicated and "community" functionality
enabled;
- highly
personalised approach to storage, organisation and
threading - by time, topic, community, etc all
applicable retrospectively;
- simple
change to look and feel through meta-edit and
contributory editor (upload my gifs etc);
- indivdual
address book contains addresses of conversations
initiated by student - subsets available eg to school
but other access controlled by steering
committee.
Maximum design care taken for those "less than
comfortable with text" for whatever reason - icon
reinforcements for dyslexics for
example.
Because one objective of this partnership is to
showcase Oracle's technology the service will be
evolving and ambitious - students will be exposed to
design process to help develop their critical
awareness - features will be clearly shown as "new" or
"established" with feedback from users and designers of
"new". Meta-level user awareness matters.
For regulatory and proto-competitive reasons it is
importan that the service supports aliasing and
forwarding from (but not to) other service
provided identities.
Whatever naming convention we adopt (now resloved) a
robust conversion into barcode or electronic reader
codes will be necessary to enable email identity
swipe cards - for example for museums.
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