- Title
- Digital Inclusion: A model for e-Infrastructure and e-Services in Developing Countries
- Creator
- Terzoli, Alfredo, Siebörger, Ingrid, Tsietsi, Mosiuoa, Gumbo, Sibukelo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430973
- Identifier
- vital:72733
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98827-6_7
- Description
- A large portion of the South African population is still not connected in a productive manner to the Internet, despite the existence of a govern-ment plan for public broadband, ‘SA Connect’. One reason for this could be the lack of an appropriate model, through which connectivity can be diffused in a meaningful way through all areas of South Africa. This paper presents the model developed over more than a decade of experimentation in real life settings in the Siyakhula Living Lab, a joint venture between the universities of Rhodes and Fort Hare, South Afri-ca. The model proposes the ‘Broadband Island’ as basic e-infrastructure unit, which clusters nearby points-of-presence hosted in schools. In each Broadband Island is located an applications integra-tion platform, TeleWeaver, which monetizes channels of access to the local community, to support the e-infrastructure while providing useful services to the population and the Government.
- Format
- 8 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering, Terzoli, A., Siebörger, I., Tsietsi, M. and Gumbo, S., 2018. Digital Inclusion: A model for e-Infrastructure and e-Services in Developing Countries. In e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: 9th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2017, Lagos, Nigeria, December 11-12, 2017, Proceedings 9 (pp. 85-98). Springer International Publishing, Emerging Trends in Computing, Informatics, Systems Sciences, and Engineering volume 2018 number 1 85 98 2018 978-3-319-98827-6
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