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Reflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communication
(Telkom, 2007)
This paper reports on three years of research and fieldwork with a rural wireless Internet Protocol communication project. We built a long-range WiFi network and custom communication software to support a rural telehealth ...
MUTI Telehealth
(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 ...
Please call ME.N.U.4EVER: designing for “Callback” in rural Africa
(Product & Systems Internationalisation, Inc, 2011)
Designers and developers are naïve about the ways impoverished people in rural Africa innovate new uses of mobile technology to circumvent access difficulties. Here, we report on the local appropriation of an USSD ‘Callback’ ...