- Title
- Technology solutions to strengthen the integration of marginalized communities into the global knowledge society
- Creator
- Hlungulu, Bulumko, Kunjuzwa, Dumani, Ndlovu, Nyankiso, Samalenge, Jimmy, Sikhumbuzo, Ngwenya, Thinyane, Mamello, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430769
- Identifier
- vital:72714
- Identifier
- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5753005
- Description
- 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 Prov-ince, for the past four years. The living lab methodology, which enables user-driven innovation within a multi-stakeholder relationship of aca-demia, user communities, government and private industry, has facili-tated greater integration of the Dwesa community into the digital ecolo-gy and subsequently the knowledge society. This paper introduces the SLL intervention, discusses the SLL's supporting technical infrastruc-ture and the interventions that are undertaken towards long-term sus-tainability of the project. The developed eServices are also discussed, with a view to highlighting the key characteristics that contribute to in-creased context-sensitivity, ownership, and buy-in from the community.
- Format
- 10 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- IST-Africa, Hlungulu, B., Kunjuzwa, D., Ndlovu, N., Samalenge, J., Sikhumbuzo, N., Thinyane, M. and Terzoli, A., 2010, May. Technology solutions to strengthen the integration of marginalized communities into the global knowledge society. In 2010 IST-Africa (pp. 1-11). IEEE, IST-Africa volume 2010 number 1 1 11 2010 Conference
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SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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