Village eLearning: An offline mobile solution to rural communities’ knowledge requirement

This paper presents an offline mobile eLearning concept as an ICT solution to address the knowledge requirements of a rural sub-Saharan farming community. A socio-technical customisation and deployment of WikiReaders is proposed to support offline mobile access to digital content. A future use scenario is presented as a demonstration of cheap but sustainable innovation emerging from a longitudinal evaluation of users, their needs and their context.

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Souleymane Camara

Sujan Shrestha

José Abdelnour-Nocera

John Moore

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Publication date: September 2010

Publication date (Print): September 2010

Pages: 463-467

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[0001]School of Computing – Thames Valley University

St Mary’s Road – London – UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2010.57

SO-VID: d788e98f-d8fb-4d96-b388-76eb306de013

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2010

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 24

Conference location: University of Abertay, Dundee, UK

Conference date: 6 - 10 September 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Village eLearning: An offline mobile solution to rural communities’ knowledge requirement

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