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Communicating in designing an oral repository for rural African villages
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)
We describe designing an asynchronous, oral repository and sharing system that we intend to suit the needs and practices of rural residents in South Africa. We aim to enable users without access to personal computers to ...
Towards a scalability model for wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2015)
Zenzeleni mesh network is a wireless ad-hoc mesh network that provides voice services using public analogue telephones to the Mankosi community in the Eastern Cape
Province. We would like to improve on the network ...
Walking and the social life of solar charging in rural Africa
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2013)
We consider practices that sustain social and physical environments beyond those dominating sustainable HCI discourse. We describe links between walking, sociality, and using resources in a case study of community-based, ...
FHMIPv6-based handover for wireless mesh networks
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper shows that mobility management protocols for infrastructure Internet may be used in a wireless mesh network environment. Mesh topology tends to be an unplanned graph and routes change dynamically and in this ...
Mobile Communication Tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)
This paper presents a case for iterative community-based co-design to facilitate the emergence of an innovative mobile system to address a potentially life-threatening scenario for Deaf people in South Africa. For Deaf ...
Community-based solar power revenue alternative to improve sustainability of a rural wireless mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
Given the needs for a clean and easy way to maintain and secure powering wireless networks in rural areas and to gen- erate revenue to guarantee the sustainability of its intended goals, an innovative approach to leverage ...
Towards a sustainable business model for rural telephony
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper presents the work done thus far towards designing a sustainable business model for rural telephony in the community of Mankosi, located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The pillars of the model are ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Local access in the context of regions in the global South continues to undergo transformation due to the growing ubiquity of mobile connectivity and the recent appearance of what have been termed “inverse” telecommunication ...
Usability of an authoring tool for generalised scenario creation for signsupport
(Telkom, 2015)
This paper presents the usability testing results for an
authoring tool that generalises scenario creation for a tool called
SignSupport. SignSupport is a mobile communication tool for
Deaf people that currently runs ...
An analysis of voice over Internet Protocol in wireless mesh networks
(IEEE, 2014)
The paper focuses on analyzing the affects of wireless mesh networks with some mobile nodes on Voice over Internet Protocol service quality. Our interest is to examine this in simulation to learn how to better deploy voice ...