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Using voice over IP to bridge the digital divide: a critical action research approach
(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 ...
The role of Outcome Mapping in developing a rural telemedicine system
(International Information Management Corporation, 2008)
We describe the use of Outcome Mapping to guide the design of a rural telemedicine consultation system in South Africa. While Outcome Mapping was not primarily intended to guide design, we show that it tied in well with a ...
Bridging communications across the digital divide
(CTIT, 2004)
Connecting people across the Digital Divide is as much a social effort as a technological one. We are developing a community-centered approach to learn how interaction techniques can compensate for poor communication across ...
Developing locally relevant applications for rural areas: a South African example
(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 ...
Socially aware software engineering for the developing world
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2006)
While the social effects of Information Technology (IT) have received much attention there is very little work on targeted methodologies to develop IT applications and content in a developing world environment. This paper ...
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 ...
Open user interconnect and quality of communication
(Telkom, 2004)
We looked for and found two situations within the South African Digital Divide where constant and severe macro-scale latencies would most likely interfere with the usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ...
SoftBridge: an architecture for building IP-based bridges over the digital divide
(Telkom, 2002)
Users and computing equipment have varying capabilities that include the abilities to exchange text and audio, engage in high bandwidth communication, etc. As the technological options increase, e ective communication ...
SoftBridge: a multimodal instant messaging bridging system
(Telkom, 2003)
Instant Messaging is traditionally a text only a air. However, there are instances when it would be useful to bridge to other types of media, like speech. The SoftBridge is an application framework that enables this kind ...
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 ...