- Title
- The Internet in rural communities: unrestricted and contextualized
- Creator
- Thinyane, Mamello, Dalvit, Lorenzo, Terzoli, Alfredo, Clayton, Peter G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431344
- Identifier
- vital:72766
- Identifier
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alfredo-Ter-zoli/publication/262259378_The_Internet_in_rural_communities_unrestricted_and_contextualized/links/6597ec140bb2c7472b35fcac/The-Internet-in-rural-communities-unrestricted-and-contextualized.pdf
- Description
- The benefits of the Internet are still not available to many marginalized communities because of lack of connectivity, costs of infrastructure and scarcity of skills. Many ICTforDevelopment (ICT4D) projects offer piecemeal interventions relying either on restricted (and often decontex-tualised) access to the Internet or on isolated Local Area Networks (LANs). In this paper we argue that marginalized rural communities should have unrestricted access to the Internet in order to exploit its full potential. We also believe that the Internet could be contextualized through an optional adaptation layer which would facilitate access. We discuss an ICT4D project which was shaped from the very beginning according to these principles. It involves the deployment of an eCom-merce platform (soon to be integrated with eHealth, eLearning and eGovernment capabilities) in a rural community in South Africa. We re-port on how the various components of this intervention fit into the model, and the benefits for the community.
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ICT Africa, Thinyane, M., Dalvit, L., Terzoli, A. and Clayton, P., 2008. The Internet in rural communities: unrestricted and contextualized. ICT Africa, 13, p.15, ICT Africa volume 13 number 1 1 6 2008 Journal
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RU School of Languages and Literatures
Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
Dalvit, Lorenzo (Prof)
Clayton, Peter Graham (Prof)
RU Department of Computer Science
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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