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WINE
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Economic Analysis of Networking Technologies for Rural Developing Regions
Abstract. Providing network connectivity to rural regions in the developing world is an economically challenging problem especially given the low income levels and low population d...
Shridhar Mubaraq Mishra, John Hwang, Dick Filippin...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
The majority of people in rural developing regions do not have access to the World Wide Web. Traditional network connectivity technologies have proven to be prohibitively expensiv...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Connecting the "bottom of the pyramid": an exploratory case study of india's rural communication environment
This paper is based on our exploratory study of a South Indian village in Chamrajanagar district of Karnataka. The study was to understand the rural communication environment and ...
Sarita Seshagiri, Sagar Aman, Dhaval Joshi
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Why is connectivity in developing regions expensive: policy challenges more than technical limitations?
I present analysis examining some of the causes of poor connectivity in developing countries. Based on a technoeconomic analysis and design, I show that technical limitations per ...
Rahul Tongia
OR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Modeling an e-government observatory for rural SMEs using UML with RUP
Developing Web-based systems for agriculture and rural development requires the collaboration of experts from different scientific fields and backgrounds. Thus, it is crucial to ...
Sotiris Karetsos, Nikos Manouselis, Constantina Co...