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This article explores the relevance of the ethnographic study of the Internet for feminist scholars interested in families. The online world is an emerging field site for feminist scholars investigating spousal, parental, and kin relations, one that opens up new arenas of study but also requires novel methodological approaches. The proliferation of cyber-communities and computer-mediated communication...
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Universal, intelligent and multifunctional devices controlling power distribution and measurement will become the enabling technology of the ICT-driven SmartGrid. In this paper we discuss a design and simulation environment which provides a virtual model of such devices and at the same time enables their interoperability and configurability. The solution is based on the combination of IEC 61850 interoperable...
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The development of earth observation technology has changed the way to obtain eco-environmental information. Through remote sensing images, we can access to various kinds of environmental information about large areas dynamic and rapidly. However, with the expansion of eco-environmental information, the data itself has become the bottleneck for its further use because of its massive and closed nature,...
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Mobile handsets (phones) are expected to increase from the current 4.5B (billion) subscriptions to over 6B in 2013 and thus dwarf the numbers of PCs (e.g. desktop, laptop, netbook, etc.) that are expected to rise from the current 1.1B to 2B in 2015. But more importantly, data transmission from and to mobile handsets is becoming and increasingly available and affordable. The dramatic improvements in...
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Mobile handsets (phones) are expected to increase from the current 4.5B (billion) subscriptions to over 6B in 2013 and thus dwarf the numbers of PCs (e.g. desktop, laptop, netbook, etc.) that are expected to rise from the current 1.1B to 2B in 2015. But more importantly, data transmission from and to mobile handsets is becoming and increasingly available and affordable. The dramatic improvements in...
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has made it possible to explore novel and innovative mechanisms to leap-frog socio-economic development in rural and marginalized communities. An ICT for development intervention called Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL) has been underway in Dwesa, a rural community in the Eastern Cape Province, for the past four years. The living lab methodology, which enables...
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A complex system is an embodiment of stochastically interacting subsystems through dynamics of vast information exchange (as seen in biological systems). In this context, a digital ecosystem can be regarded as being deeply intertwined with profiles of an IT-centric complex system. Hence, the complexity of evolution of modern telecommunication (telco) business (in terms of service expansion, revenue...
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Pragmatic design requires no radical alterations to the existing digital ecology and has successfully provided many viable solutions. Given the skills limitations within the developing world, however, developers also need a new design focus that views the user as designer.
