Author:Pillay, Kasandra; Xie, C; Ruffini, M; Shi, L; Smith, D; Monga, I; Wang, X; Wey, JSDate:Jun 2019Over 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
Author:Ouma, S; Herselman, Martha E; Van Greunen, DDate:Nov 2011This 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
Author:Cloete, Jacob PL; Barnard, E; Patel, Hina MDate:Aug 2004The 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
Author:Barnard, E; Davel, MH; Van Huyssteen, GBDate:Mar 2010Telephone-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
Author:Farelo,M; Morris,CDate:May 2006E-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
Author:Sharma Grover, A; Van Huyssteen, G; Calteaux, Karen VDate:Jan 2013In 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
Author:De Vries, NJ; Badenhorst, J; Davel, MH; Barnard, E; De Waal, ADate:Aug 2011Building 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