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Connected OFCity challenge: addressing the digital divide in the developing world

Author: Pillay, Kasandra ; Xie, C ; Ruffini, M ; Shi, L ; Smith, D ; Monga, I ; Wang, X ; Wey, JS Date: Jun 2019 Over the past 50 years, the development of information and communications technology has provided unprecedented support to the steady economic growth of developed countries. In recent years, some of the largest growth has been reported in ... Read more
Factors that influence m-health implementations in resource constrained areas in the developing world

Author: Ouma, S ; Herselman, Martha E ; Van Greunen, D Date: Nov 2011 This paper looks into an overview of the challenges that are crippling the healthcare domain which provide healthcare services to the resource constrained areas in developing nations. It also looks into how mobile devices can be used to provide ... Read more
Initial experiments on the effectiveness of telephone access to government services

Author: Cloete, Jacob PL ; Barnard, E ; Patel, Hina M Date: Aug 2004 The authors report on research aimed at gaining an improved understanding of how issues such as language, literacy and previous exposure to technology affect citizens' ability to access government services of different complexity via ordinary ... Read more
Speech technology for information access: a South African case study

Author: Barnard, E ; Davel, MH ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: Mar 2010 Telephone-based information access has the potential to deliver a significant positive impact in the developing world. We discuss some of the most important issues that must be addressed in order to realize this potential, including matters ... Read more
Status of E-government in South Africa

Author: Farelo,M ; Morris,C Date: May 2006 E-government in South Africa is at a formative stage and a snapshot of progress is taken by asking the 10 questions posed by the “Roadmap for E-government”. There is a strong political will driving the vision and the readiness assessment ... Read more
Towards an information ecosystem for animal disease surveillance using voice services

Author: Sharma Grover, A ; Van Huyssteen, G ; Calteaux, Karen V Date: Jan 2013 In this paper we introduce a solution for disease surveillance and monitoring in the primary animal health care (PAHC) domain that uses inbound voice-based services and voice- and text-based outbound services for connecting rural veterinarians ... Read more
Woefzela - An open-source platform for ASR data collection in the developing world

Author: De Vries, NJ ; Badenhorst, J ; Davel, MH ; Barnard, E ; De Waal, A Date: Aug 2011 Building transcribed speech corpora for under-resourced languages plays a pivotal role in developing speech technologies for such languages. The authors have developed an open-source tool for devices running the Android operating system to ... Read more

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