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Battery and data drain of over-the-top applications on low-end smartphones
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2018)
Low-end smartphones with sub $50 price tags provide affordable device ownership to low-income populations. However, their limited capacity, when combined with the need for multimodal connectivity, raises usage concerns in ...
Moving ICTD research beyond bungee jumping: practical case studies and recommendations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)
The global spread of Internet and mobile communications has been accompanied by a growing interest in how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to social and economic development. There are a ...
Amplifying positive deviance with ICT enabling community development and interdependence
(Springer, 2017)
Positive deviance is a social mechanism whereby a beneficial practice that is not considered as normal gets taken up and spread within a community. This enables a community to solve its own problems aided by mentorship and ...
Co-designing a billing system for voice services in rural South Africa: Lessons learned
(ACM, 2014)
Access to information and communication technologies re- mains una ordable for many in rural areas despite recent progress in providing voice services to remote communities. The sustainability of alternative technical ...
Performance Evaluation of a Wireless Network using a VoIP Traffic Generator on a Mobile Device
(ACM, 2014)
The problem of generating different patterns of traffic to emulate real user behaviour is receiving considerable attention with the construction of new and more complex network architectures. The theoretical modelling of ...
A participatory design for a billing system: A South African case study of a community based telephony system
(ACM, 2014)
This paper describes the role participatory design can play in developing and implementing an information and communication technology for development project in a rural area. It shows how the process of co-designing an ...
Rural Wireless Mesh Network Analysis on Mobile Devices
(Telkom SA, 2014)
The aim of this research effort is to build an efficient and accurate mobile traffic generator based on open source computer-based traffic generator software. A high performance mobile traffic generator would make the ...
Optimisation of SlotTime for a single-radio Mid-Range Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Network
(Telkom SA, 2014)
This paper presents the business context and results of an optimisation exercise for a single-radio mid-range multi-hop wireless mesh network for the provision of VoIP services. This WiFi mesh network physically covers 30 ...
Agent-based context-aware healthcare information retrieval using DROPT approach
(International Science Press, 2012)
As the volume of information available on the Web information systems is growing continuously, browsing
this content becomes a tedious task given the presentation of data that does meet user's aims and needs. In this
paper, ...
SignSupport: a limited communication domain mobile aid for a Deaf patient at the pharmacy
(Telkom, 2013)
This paper discusses a prototype for a communication aid on a mobile phone to support a Deaf1 person visiting a public hospital pharmacy. The aim is to prevent problems of non-compliance to treatment due to poor communication ...