- Title
- E-skills training on communal, fixed infrastructure as an activator of personal use of mobile internet
- Creator
- Gumbo, Sibukelo, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430716
- Identifier
- vital:72710
- Identifier
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6701781
- Description
- In the second semester of 2012, training in computer literacy was of-fered in the Dwesa area, in deep rural South Africa, within the footprint of the Siyakhula Living Lab. Training of this nature is essential to make ICT access meaningful in such areas, and avoid wasteful `box drop-ping', unfortunately not uncommon. The training was done using com-munal fixed infrastructure located in schools but, interestingly, activated or deepened the use of mobile intemet among the people that attended the training. This paper contributes on the ongoing debate on whether mobile devices are the one and only solution to ICT access in rural (and peri-urban) poor settings in Africa.
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- IST-Africa Conference and Exhibitions, Gumbo, S. and Terzoli, A., 2013, May. E-skills training on communal, fixed infrastructure as an activator of personal use of mobile internet. In 2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition (pp. 1-7). IEEE, IST-Africa Conference and Exhibitions volume 2013 number 1 1 7 2013 978-1-905824-38-0
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Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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