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This paper presents an economic e-Learning prototype for boosting up agricultural knowledge in rural regions of Thailand. The proposed prototype is designed on low-resource and mobility concepts. An e-Learning service is utilized for local self-learning and local staff to instruct contents. Due to the limitations and problems of ICT infrastructure, we design our system to function in two modes which...
In education, application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) brings out the term of digital learning which can be used to support conventional learning process. Digital learning is one of alternative solutions to problems concerning good quality education disparities in rural areas, which is caused by the lacking of teacher resources. Case study in Cianjur is an action in applying ICT...
Unemployment, especially among the youth, is a pressing issue in many rural areas. This paper proposes a model of local employment generation in rural or underdeveloped areas, which often do not have an adequate infrastructure (including wireless connectivity and uninterrupted electricity supply) to enable them to take advantage of technology. We assume that most people in such areas already possess...
Mobile telecom services have tremendous impact on social and economic development of people of rural areas of developing and the least developed countries (LDCs). However, designing a mobile network architecture for rural areas of LDCs is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a mobile network architecture for providing mobile telecommunication services in rural areas of LDCs. The proposed...
FoneAstra is a low-cost mobile-phone-based sensing system for monitoring national vaccine cold chains. In its first pilot deployment, the system successfully diagnosed several issues.
India lives in her villages, not in her cities. If the village perishes, India perishes too.?? (Mahatma Gandhi) Integra's Mobile Financial Applications Secure Terminal (iMFAST) is a system developed to meet the requirements of branchless banking in Rural India. This paper describes the banking scenario in Rural India, its adversaries, need and requirements of branchless banking solution. It covers...
With the advent of the e-commerce, it has become much easier for a `data bandit' to sit in non descriptive location and quietly siphon away money from the service users. The financial service outlets (e.g. automated teller machine (ATM), point of sale (PoS) terminal) have been a soft target for these bandits since long. In the existing model, the users are forced to trust a service outlet to be authentic...
In this paper, we present what we believe to be the first documented experiment to replace an existing PC-based system that had goals of "bridging the digital divide" for an agricultural district with a mobile-phone-based system in which a small, but relevant amount of data is transferred to farmers via SMS text messaging. Implemented in rural Maharashtra, Warana Unwired sought to replace...
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