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The Expert Opinion An Interview with Mr. David Costrini, Web Application Development Manager The University of Delaware Conducted by Naveed Baqir, University ofDelaware,mnbaqir@udel.edu Johnny McClain, Graduate Student, University of Delaware Many educational institutions are attempting to develop mobile content (mobile websites and/or mobile apps) to deliver different services for access through mobile websites. The University of Delaware has also undertaken several technology initiatives to provide access to various services for students and faculty members through a mobile app. This interview provides insights from this experience. JGITM: Can you please give us an overview ofthe Mobile Apps development project at the University ofDelaware (UD)? Costrini: This mobile apps project started on the request of University of Delaware's Vice President of Information Technologies, Mr. Karl Jacobson. He saw the expanding growth of mobile platform particularly the iPhone a few years ago and he felt it worthwhile for UD to get into it to try to be one of the first one into the arena. As web development group's manger, I was asked to lead this project. We did some research and we found "iMobileU" mobile web framework. This is the framework that we followed to develop University of Delaware's mobile app