- Title
- E-Government as a Means to Support Communal, Large ICT Infrastructure in Poor Areas
- Creator
- Gumbo, Sibukelo, Terzoli, Alfredo, Tsietsi, Mosiuoa
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431287
- Identifier
- vital:72761
- Identifier
- https://www.academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_5067238-ECEG-2016-Proceedings-of-the-16th-European-Conference-on-eGovernment.html
- Description
- Citizen-facing e-Government appears inevitable given current technol-ogy trends, and certainly has many advantages. One overlooked bene-fit, in our opinion, is its potential to make financially viable communal “large ICT” installations, which would diffuse ICT in poor communities where ICT is currently absent.(By “large ICT” we refer to end-user equipment such as desktops or laptops, on which would be possible to produce content, including software. The presence of “large ICT” in a community is critical in our opinion for the empowerment of the commu-nity, especially its younger component.) This paper explores this poten-tial in e-Government, describing a model conceptualized in the Siyakhu-la Living Lab in South Africa and partially implemented, through an inte-gration platform named “TeleWeaver”. The model behind TeleWeaver is an adaptation of the classic Internet business model-whereby users of services do not directly pay for the services they use. This model is especially relevant currently in South Africa, because of the an-nouncement by the government to pilot connecting to the internet gov-ernment facilities, including schools, in eight poor district municipalities.
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- European Conference on Digital Government, Gumbo, S., Terzoli, A. and Tsietsi, M., 2016, June. E-Government as a Means to Support Communal," Large ICT" Infrastructure in Poor Areas. In European Conference on Digital Government (p. 78). Academic Conferences International Limited, European Conference on Digital Government volume 2016 number 1 1 6 2016 2049-1026
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Tsietsi, Mosiuoa (Dr)
Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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