- Title
- TeleWeaver: an innovative telecommunication platform for marginalized communities in Africa
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo, Gumbo, Sibukelo, Ntshinga, Lindikaya, Terzoli, Alfredo, Hansen, Susan
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431317
- Identifier
- vital:72763
- Identifier
- https://www.academic-bookshop.com/ourshop/prod_2659103-ECEG-2013-13th-European-Conference-on-eGovernment-Como-Italy-PRINT-version.html
- Description
- Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) is becoming an increasingly important and multi‐faceted area of research and software development. Particularly through provision via mobile devices, e‐services can potentially reach and improve the lives of millions of people living in marginalised areas. The efforts of many governments in sub‐Saharan Africa are frustrated by poor tele-communication infrastructure, lack of skills and unsustainable models of intervention. In this paper we describe the holistic solution offered by the TeleWeaver platform. The novel approach to the development of the software, the strong sense of social responsibility of the developers and the collaborative spirit that shaped the ecosystem of which Tele-Weaver is part, warrants the adoption of an innovative approach to its marketing and implementation. On the one hand, the project needs to provide returns on investment and generate profit for the key stake-holders (ie government at the local and national level, academia, indus-try and socio‐-entrepreneurs in the target community). On the other, it must benefit all members of the marginalised communities it is intended to serve as well as the global community of software developers. Tele-Weaver was developed in close collaboration with the community of Dwesa, a rural area on the Wild Cost of the Transkei regions in eastern South Africa.
- Format
- 7 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Egovernment, Dalvit, L., Gumbo, S., Ntshinga, L. and Terzoli, A., 2013, June. TeleWeaver: an innovative telecommunication platform for marginalized communities in Africa. In Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Egovernment (pp. 152-159), Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Egovernment volume 2013 number 1 152 159 2012 2049-1026
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SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
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