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    • Developing locally relevant applications for rural areas: a South African example 

      Chetty, Marshini; Tucker, William David; Blake, Edwin H. (SAICSIT, in assocation with ACM, 2004)
      The digital divide between rural and urban areas within developing countries is vast. We investigate how to address this divide by introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into remote rural areas. Our ...
    • MUTI Telehealth 

      Tucker, William David; Vuza, Xolisa; Chetty, Marshini; Blake, Edwin H.; Marsden, Gary; Pearson, Murray; Westerveld, Rudi (2007)
      For four years we have been iteratively evolving MUTI, a rural telehealth system, for hospitals and clinics in a remote rural part of the Eastern Cape in South Africa (Chetty, 2005; Chetty et al., 2003, 2004a; Maunder et ...
    • Telemedicine using VoIP combined with a store and forward approach 

      Chetty, Marshini; Tucker, William David; Blake, Edwin H. (Telkom, 2004)
      Rural areas in South Africa have unique conditions such as remoteness and scarcity of reliable public facilities. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) introduced into these areas must be suitable for these ...
    • Using voice over IP to bridge the digital divide: a critical action research approach 

      Chetty, Marshini; Tucker, William David; Blake, Edwin H. (Telkom, 2003)
      There is a great disparity between those who have access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and those that do not. This phenomenon forms part of the Digital Divide. Many ICTs may be used to help overcome ...