eServices provisioning in a community development context through a JADE MAS platform
- Thinyane, Mamello, Terzoli, Alfredo, Clayton, Peter G
- Authors: Thinyane, Mamello , Terzoli, Alfredo , Clayton, Peter G
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430836 , vital:72720 , 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426697
- Description: A growing proliferation of ICT4D interventions has necessitated the ex-ploration of innovative solutions for the provisioning of eServices in ru-ral, marginalized communities. The challenges currently faced in these interventions include: situating the developed applications within the cultural and ethnographic context of the target communities, integrating greater levels of granularity and flexibility within the applications for in-creased context sensitivity, handling the intermittence and instability of supporting infrastructural services. These are the challenges that we address in the context of ICT4D intervention undertaken in a rural community in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. We explore the design and implementation of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) for this community as a platform for provisioning of context-sensitive eServ-ices, and highlight some observations with regards to the applicability and adequacy of the solution.
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- Authors: Thinyane, Mamello , Terzoli, Alfredo , Clayton, Peter G
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430836 , vital:72720 , 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426697
- Description: A growing proliferation of ICT4D interventions has necessitated the ex-ploration of innovative solutions for the provisioning of eServices in ru-ral, marginalized communities. The challenges currently faced in these interventions include: situating the developed applications within the cultural and ethnographic context of the target communities, integrating greater levels of granularity and flexibility within the applications for in-creased context sensitivity, handling the intermittence and instability of supporting infrastructural services. These are the challenges that we address in the context of ICT4D intervention undertaken in a rural community in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. We explore the design and implementation of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) for this community as a platform for provisioning of context-sensitive eServ-ices, and highlight some observations with regards to the applicability and adequacy of the solution.
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The Internet in rural communities: unrestricted and contextualized
- Thinyane, Mamello, Dalvit, Lorenzo, Terzoli, Alfredo, Clayton, Peter G
- Authors: Thinyane, Mamello , Dalvit, Lorenzo , Terzoli, Alfredo , Clayton, Peter G
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431344 , vital:72766 , 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.
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- Authors: Thinyane, Mamello , Dalvit, Lorenzo , Terzoli, Alfredo , Clayton, Peter G
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431344 , vital:72766 , 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.
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Transitions towards a knowledge society: Aspectual pre-evaluation of a culture-sensitive implementation framework
- Thinyane, Mamello, Terzoli, Alfredo, Clayton, Peter G
- Authors: Thinyane, Mamello , Terzoli, Alfredo , Clayton, Peter G
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431054 , vital:72741 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09729-9_41
- Description: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transi-tion of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently pre-dominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore in-advertedly leading to more Westernization of the world. It is important, therefore, that ICT solutions are culture sensitive and flexible enough to be situated within different cultures. To that end, we utilize Herman Dooyeweerd’s Theory of Modal Aspects to analyze a framework we has developed for implementation of locally situated knowledge based systems, to determine its efficacy in addressing the different modal as-pects, which make up the total experience and cultural expressiveness of societies.
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- Authors: Thinyane, Mamello , Terzoli, Alfredo , Clayton, Peter G
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431054 , vital:72741 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09729-9_41
- Description: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transi-tion of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently pre-dominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore in-advertedly leading to more Westernization of the world. It is important, therefore, that ICT solutions are culture sensitive and flexible enough to be situated within different cultures. To that end, we utilize Herman Dooyeweerd’s Theory of Modal Aspects to analyze a framework we has developed for implementation of locally situated knowledge based systems, to determine its efficacy in addressing the different modal as-pects, which make up the total experience and cultural expressiveness of societies.
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Bridging the gap for Next Generation Services: Presence Services on Legacy Devices
- Moyo, Thamsanqa, Thinyane, Mamello, Wright, Madeleine, Irwin, Barry V W, Clayton, Peter G, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Authors: Moyo, Thamsanqa , Thinyane, Mamello , Wright, Madeleine , Irwin, Barry V W , Clayton, Peter G , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428177 , vital:72491 , https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49665432/Paper_2063_20-_20Moyo-libre.pdf?1476717366=andresponse-content-disposi-tion=inline%3B+filename%3DBridging_the_gap_for_Next_Generation_Ser.pdfandEx-pires=1714737455andSignature=RRbr9pzIYSYX8v7FG6FzV4tu3dFXm9qmmqq5WirOhuYdt--mjOfcDHQNLPYZHCmtgYZWdVk6bVFxfGOVJxgXrvkTe2QN2AZV3XfFTZ3mi1s3A5gw2jIXOVHrYUnaf~POgdijdY85mqWhco3vL6Qk3sOZgYjIlTF5ZGAKg1S54W978Nom01cT2~oqRA0Et6mTNmydWfF5MhFxQIq~LNmYqEqmEESKkkWQFwg6xJJUu0uGffbaZXXBA6oDI2cpfkz1FleKyKaRDRJvdfnuTHPoJJ4TzfO6DDVCWKvJ45jaxIzaGmK-03Ai29I-DPyy-c557kZh~kF3rmDg3zrXVNaL8A__andKey-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
- Description: Next generation services are provided by applications that leverage packet-based domains. A challenge faced by such services is the support for multiple devices, including legacy devices. Our paper examines a strategy for the pro-vision of next generation services on legacy cellular network devices. We ad-vocate that the provision of next generation services via applications on the SIM card allows for the deployment of such services on legacy devices. We demonstrate this assertion through a proof of concept application, SIMPre, that resides on a SIM card. SIMPre implements a presence service by leveraging Java Card, the SIM Application Toolkit and the OMA IMPS standard. We show that it is possible to provide a next generation service on the SIM card such that it ubiquitously integrates with the functionality of a legacy device. We con-clude through this demonstration that the SIM card is a viable option for provid-ing backward compatibility to legacy devices in the implementation of next generation services.
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- Authors: Moyo, Thamsanqa , Thinyane, Mamello , Wright, Madeleine , Irwin, Barry V W , Clayton, Peter G , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428177 , vital:72491 , https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49665432/Paper_2063_20-_20Moyo-libre.pdf?1476717366=andresponse-content-disposi-tion=inline%3B+filename%3DBridging_the_gap_for_Next_Generation_Ser.pdfandEx-pires=1714737455andSignature=RRbr9pzIYSYX8v7FG6FzV4tu3dFXm9qmmqq5WirOhuYdt--mjOfcDHQNLPYZHCmtgYZWdVk6bVFxfGOVJxgXrvkTe2QN2AZV3XfFTZ3mi1s3A5gw2jIXOVHrYUnaf~POgdijdY85mqWhco3vL6Qk3sOZgYjIlTF5ZGAKg1S54W978Nom01cT2~oqRA0Et6mTNmydWfF5MhFxQIq~LNmYqEqmEESKkkWQFwg6xJJUu0uGffbaZXXBA6oDI2cpfkz1FleKyKaRDRJvdfnuTHPoJJ4TzfO6DDVCWKvJ45jaxIzaGmK-03Ai29I-DPyy-c557kZh~kF3rmDg3zrXVNaL8A__andKey-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
- Description: Next generation services are provided by applications that leverage packet-based domains. A challenge faced by such services is the support for multiple devices, including legacy devices. Our paper examines a strategy for the pro-vision of next generation services on legacy cellular network devices. We ad-vocate that the provision of next generation services via applications on the SIM card allows for the deployment of such services on legacy devices. We demonstrate this assertion through a proof of concept application, SIMPre, that resides on a SIM card. SIMPre implements a presence service by leveraging Java Card, the SIM Application Toolkit and the OMA IMPS standard. We show that it is possible to provide a next generation service on the SIM card such that it ubiquitously integrates with the functionality of a legacy device. We con-clude through this demonstration that the SIM card is a viable option for provid-ing backward compatibility to legacy devices in the implementation of next generation services.
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Bridging the gap for Next Generation Services: Presence Services on Legacy Devices
- Moyo, Thamsanqa, Thinyane, Mamello, Wright, Madeleine, Irwin, Barry V W, Clayton, Peter G, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Authors: Moyo, Thamsanqa , Thinyane, Mamello , Wright, Madeleine , Irwin, Barry V W , Clayton, Peter G , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428176 , vital:72492 , https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49665432/Paper_2063_20-_20Moyo-libre.pdf?1476717366=andresponse-content-disposi-tion=inline%3B+filename%3DBridging_the_gap_for_Next_Generation_Ser.pdfandEx-pires=1714737455andSignature=RRbr9pzIYSYX8v7FG6FzV4tu3dFXm9qmmqq5WirOhuYdt--mjOfcDHQNLPYZHCmtgYZWdVk6bVFxfGOVJxgXrvkTe2QN2AZV3XfFTZ3mi1s3A5gw2jIXOVHrYUnaf~POgdijdY85mqWhco3vL6Qk3sOZgYjIlTF5ZGAKg1S54W978Nom01cT2~oqRA0Et6mTNmydWfF5MhFxQIq~LNmYqEqmEESKkkWQFwg6xJJUu0uGffbaZXXBA6oDI2cpfkz1FleKyKaRDRJvdfnuTHPoJJ4TzfO6DDVCWKvJ45jaxIzaGmK-03Ai29I-DPyy-c557kZh~kF3rmDg3zrXVNaL8A__andKey-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
- Description: Next generation services are provided by applications that leverage packet-based domains. A challenge faced by such services is the support for multiple devices, including legacy devices. Our paper examines a strategy for the pro-vision of next generation services on legacy cellular network devices. We ad-vocate that the provision of next generation services via applications on the SIM card allows for the deployment of such services on legacy devices. We demonstrate this assertion through a proof of concept application, SIMPre, that resides on a SIM card. SIMPre implements a presence service by leveraging Java Card, the SIM Application Toolkit and the OMA IMPS standard. We show that it is possible to provide a next generation service on the SIM card such that it ubiquitously integrates with the functionality of a legacy device. We con-clude through this demonstration that the SIM card is a viable option for provid-ing backward compatibility to legacy devices in the implementation of next generation services.
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- Authors: Moyo, Thamsanqa , Thinyane, Mamello , Wright, Madeleine , Irwin, Barry V W , Clayton, Peter G , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428176 , vital:72492 , https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/49665432/Paper_2063_20-_20Moyo-libre.pdf?1476717366=andresponse-content-disposi-tion=inline%3B+filename%3DBridging_the_gap_for_Next_Generation_Ser.pdfandEx-pires=1714737455andSignature=RRbr9pzIYSYX8v7FG6FzV4tu3dFXm9qmmqq5WirOhuYdt--mjOfcDHQNLPYZHCmtgYZWdVk6bVFxfGOVJxgXrvkTe2QN2AZV3XfFTZ3mi1s3A5gw2jIXOVHrYUnaf~POgdijdY85mqWhco3vL6Qk3sOZgYjIlTF5ZGAKg1S54W978Nom01cT2~oqRA0Et6mTNmydWfF5MhFxQIq~LNmYqEqmEESKkkWQFwg6xJJUu0uGffbaZXXBA6oDI2cpfkz1FleKyKaRDRJvdfnuTHPoJJ4TzfO6DDVCWKvJ45jaxIzaGmK-03Ai29I-DPyy-c557kZh~kF3rmDg3zrXVNaL8A__andKey-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
- Description: Next generation services are provided by applications that leverage packet-based domains. A challenge faced by such services is the support for multiple devices, including legacy devices. Our paper examines a strategy for the pro-vision of next generation services on legacy cellular network devices. We ad-vocate that the provision of next generation services via applications on the SIM card allows for the deployment of such services on legacy devices. We demonstrate this assertion through a proof of concept application, SIMPre, that resides on a SIM card. SIMPre implements a presence service by leveraging Java Card, the SIM Application Toolkit and the OMA IMPS standard. We show that it is possible to provide a next generation service on the SIM card such that it ubiquitously integrates with the functionality of a legacy device. We con-clude through this demonstration that the SIM card is a viable option for provid-ing backward compatibility to legacy devices in the implementation of next generation services.
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