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Making a community network legal within the South African regulatory framework 使社区网络在南非监管框架内合法化
Carlos Rey-Moreno, W. Tucker, D. Cull, R. Blom
Community networks often operate at the fringe of legality with respect to spectrum, network infrastructure and providing services. We have been involved with such a network in a rural community, and together with them, have devised a way to become legal within the South African regulatory framework. A not-for-profit co-operative was formed and successfully applied for license exemption to operate the network infrastructure and offer services. Revenue is used to sustain the network and can also be used for other community needs. The network has equipment that is not 100% type-approved, and operates at a higher output power than is allowed. However, we have a simple plan to comply with such regulations. This paper offers our experience as a precedent for how to go about making a community network completely legal in South Africa and other countries that have a similar regulatory environment.
社区网络在频谱、网络基础设施和提供服务方面往往处于合法性的边缘。我们在一个农村社区参与了这样一个网络,并与他们一起设计了一种在南非监管框架内合法化的方法。成立非营利性合作社,成功申请免牌照经营网络基础设施和提供服务。收入用于维持网络,也可用于其他社区需求。该网络的设备不是100%型式认可的,并且在高于允许的输出功率下运行。然而,我们有一个简单的计划来遵守这些规定。本文提供了我们的经验,作为如何在南非和其他具有类似监管环境的国家使社区网络完全合法的先例。
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引用次数: 21
Promises and pitfalls of mobile money in Afghanistan: evidence from a randomized control trial 阿富汗移动货币的承诺和陷阱:来自随机对照试验的证据
J. Blumenstock, M. Callen, Tarek Ghani, L. Koepke
Despite substantial interest in the potential for mobile money to positively impact the lives of the poor, little empirical evidence exists to substantiate these claims. In this paper, we present the results of a field experiment in Afghanistan that was designed to increase adoption of mobile money, and determine if such adoption led to measurable changes in the lives of the adopters. The specific intervention we evaluate is a mobile salary payment program, in which a random subset of individuals of a large firm were transitioned into receiving their regular salaries in mobile money rather than in cash. We separately analyze the impact of this transition on both the employer and the individual employees. For the employer, there were immediate and significant cost savings; in a dangerous physical environment, they were able to effectively shift the costs of managing their salary supply chain to the mobile phone operator. For individual employees, however, the results were more ambiguous. Individuals who were transitioned onto mobile salary payments were more likely to use mobile money, and there is evidence that these accounts were used to accumulate small balances that may be indicative of savings. However, we find little consistent evidence that mobile money had an immediate or significant impact on several key indicators of individual wealth or well-being. Taken together, these results suggest that while mobile salary payments may increase the efficiency and transparency of traditional systems, in the short run the benefits may be realized by those making the payments, rather than by those receiving them.
尽管人们对移动货币对穷人生活产生积极影响的潜力非常感兴趣,但几乎没有经验证据可以证实这些说法。在本文中,我们展示了在阿富汗进行的一项实地实验的结果,该实验旨在增加移动货币的采用,并确定这种采用是否会给采用者的生活带来可衡量的变化。我们评估的具体干预措施是一项移动工资支付计划,在该计划中,一家大公司的随机个人子集转换为以移动货币而不是现金收取常规工资。我们分别分析了这种转变对雇主和员工个人的影响。对于雇主来说,这可以立即节省大量的成本;在一个危险的物理环境中,他们能够有效地将管理工资供应链的成本转移给移动电话运营商。然而,对于个别员工来说,结果就不那么明确了。过渡到移动工资支付的个人更有可能使用移动货币,有证据表明,这些账户被用来积累小额余额,这可能是储蓄的指示。然而,我们发现很少有一致的证据表明移动货币对个人财富或福祉的几个关键指标有直接或显著的影响。综上所述,这些结果表明,虽然移动工资支付可能会提高传统系统的效率和透明度,但从短期来看,好处可能是由支付者而不是收款人实现的。
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引用次数: 92
Fine-tuning Kleine's choice framework 微调Kleine的选择框架
H. Attwood, Julian May
Kleine's choice framework (CF) is a significant advance in the theorization of ICTD. Using the findings of an intervention imbedded within a participatory action research project, we propose six amendments which could enhance the CF's usefulness.
Kleine的选择框架(CF)是ICTD理论化的重要进展。根据一项参与性行动研究项目的干预结果,我们提出了六项修正案,可以增强CF的实用性。
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引用次数: 4
SafeStreet: empowering women against street harassment using a privacy-aware location based application SafeStreet:利用一款基于隐私的定位应用程序,让女性免受街头骚扰
Mohammed Eunus Ali, Shabnam Basera Rishta, Lazima Ansari, T. Hashem, Ahamad Imtiaz Khan
Sexual harassment of women in public places (e.g., foot-paths, buses, and shopping malls) of major cities in developing countries is a growing concern. These harassments can happen in various forms ranging from commenting, catcalling, and staring to touching and groping, to attacking and raping. Though, the most severe form of harassments such as attacking and raping get some attention from the society, NGOs and law-enforcement agencies, unfortunately, other forms of harassments that are more widespread in public places remain largely un-attended or ignored in our conservative society. However, these harassments are more common and can have various negative psychological impacts on women that include a persistent feeling of insecurity, loss of self-esteem, restricted participation in daily life activities in public places. In this paper, we propose a crowd-powered privacy-aware location based mobile application, SafeStreet, that empowers women in public places against sexual harassments. SafeStreet allows a women to privately capture and share her own experiences in the street. SafeStreet enables a women to find a safe path, i.e., the path to a destination that has less harassment hazard, at any point of time.
在发展中国家主要城市的公共场所(如人行道、公共汽车和购物中心)对妇女的性骚扰日益引起关注。这些骚扰可能以各种形式发生,从评论、嘘声、凝视到触摸和摸索,再到攻击和强奸。虽然,攻击和强奸等最严重的骚扰形式得到了社会、非政府组织和执法机构的一些关注,但不幸的是,在我们这个保守的社会中,其他形式的骚扰在公共场所更为普遍,但在很大程度上没有得到关注或忽视。然而,这些骚扰更为常见,可能对妇女产生各种消极的心理影响,包括持续的不安全感、丧失自尊、限制参与公共场所的日常生活活动。在本文中,我们提出了一种基于人群的隐私意识位置移动应用程序SafeStreet,它赋予女性在公共场所免受性骚扰的权力。“安全街”允许女性私下捕捉并分享自己在街上的经历。“安全街”使妇女能够在任何时候找到一条安全的道路,即通往骚扰风险较小的目的地的道路。
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引用次数: 36
The 2014 Indian general election on Twitter: an analysis of changing political traditions 推特上的2014年印度大选:对政治传统变化的分析
Kokil Jaidka, Saifuddin Ahmed
This study investigates how politicians and citizens cooperate to create an e-democracy based on information dissemination and political awareness in an ICT environment, especially during elections. This research is conducted in the Indian context, where new ICT channels, such as Facebook and Twitter, were extensively used for campaigning and citizen engagement prior to elections. We downloaded 98,396 tweets posted by the official Twitter accounts of the top ten political parties during a two month period prior to election and conducted a three-level analysis to identify the overall trend in usage, the interactive characteristics of tweets and the functions driving the Twitter usage of political parties. Our findings show that the more successful parties used Twitter to push timely updates on online and offline campaign activities, to their followers. The exemplary use of Twitter for campaigns was by the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Twitter account for interacting with the public, and by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) account for self-promotion and highlighting its party manifesto. Further, we identify the new paradigms created by political parties to engage and inform voters, driven on modern ICT. Our study is the first in analyzing Twitter usage by Indian political parties, and its findings corroborate seminal research in other developing countries.
本研究探讨在ICT环境下,尤其是在选举期间,政治家与公民如何合作建立基于资讯传播与政治意识的电子民主。这项研究是在印度背景下进行的,在选举前,新的ICT渠道,如Facebook和Twitter,被广泛用于竞选和公民参与。我们在大选前两个月的时间里,下载了排名前十的政党官方Twitter账号发布的98396条推文,并进行了三个层面的分析,以确定推文的总体使用趋势、推文的互动特征以及推动政党使用Twitter的功能。我们的研究结果表明,更成功的政党使用Twitter向他们的追随者推送在线和离线竞选活动的及时更新。在竞选活动中使用Twitter的典型例子是印度人民党(BJP)的Twitter账户与公众互动,以及Aam Aadmi党(AAP)的账户用于自我宣传和突出其政党宣言。此外,我们确定了政党在现代信息通信技术的推动下创造的与选民互动和告知选民的新范式。我们的研究是第一个分析印度政党使用Twitter的研究,其结果证实了其他发展中国家的开创性研究。
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引用次数: 24
Counteracting dampeners: understanding technology-amplified capabilities of people with disabilities in Sierra Leone 抵消阻碍因素:了解塞拉利昂残疾人的技术增强能力
Jasmine Jones, J. Pal
This paper presents an ethnographically-based account on the impact of technologies appropriated in the livelihood strategies of people with disabilities (PWDs) in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In contrast to other developing countries, Sierra Leone presents a situation where people with disabilities are socially marginalized but not necessarily wholly disadvantaged. Through a lens of technology-amplified capabilities we show how PWDs leverage information and communication technologies (ICTs) to counteract social dampeners they regularly experience that prevent their participation in society. We discuss the role of the war experience and its impact on services and attitudes towards people with disability and how disruptive contexts can open up opportunities to support and amplify existing life skills towards development goals.
本文以民族志为基础,介绍了西非塞拉利昂残疾人(pwd)生计战略中使用的技术的影响。与其他发展中国家不同,塞拉利昂的残疾人在社会上被边缘化,但并不一定完全处于不利地位。通过技术放大能力的视角,我们展示了残疾人如何利用信息通信技术(ict)来抵消他们经常遇到的阻碍他们参与社会的社会障碍。我们讨论了战争经历的作用及其对服务和对残疾人态度的影响,以及破坏性环境如何为支持和扩大现有生活技能以实现发展目标提供机会。
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引用次数: 10
ICTD systems development: analysis of requirements elicitation approaches ICTD系统开发:需求引出方法的分析
M. Hasan
Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) has created enormous potential in the expansion of socioeconomic opportunities for larger group of underprivileged and isolated population. In spite of the high expectations, there have been some noticeable disappointments in the number of ICTD projects for their poor qualities caused by not fully aware of the requirements and their elicitation process in the system development. This paper identifies the documented requirements elicitation approaches and provides an analysis of a strategic methodological process of requirements elicitation applicable in the ICTD systems development. This paper is based on a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of documented requirements elicitation approaches in the literature. The results and analysis of this paper contribute in the requirements elicitation process by serving the ICTD project developer as the means of understanding the system development requirements, their elicitation process, and deriving appropriate methods and tools for requirements elicitation.
信息和通信技术与发展(ICTD)在扩大弱势和孤立人口群体的社会经济机会方面创造了巨大潜力。尽管期望很高,但由于在系统开发中没有充分认识到需求及其启发过程,贸发会议项目的质量较差,因此在数量上有一些明显的令人失望的地方。本文确定了文档化的需求提取方法,并提供了对适用于ICTD系统开发的需求提取的战略方法过程的分析。本文是基于文献中记录的需求引出方法的系统文献综述(SLR)。本文的结果和分析通过服务于ICTD项目开发人员,作为理解系统开发需求、它们的获取过程,以及为需求获取获得适当的方法和工具的手段,对需求获取过程做出了贡献。
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引用次数: 2
"Buuza Omulimisa" (ask the extension officer): text messaging for low literate farming communities in rural Uganda “Buuza Omulimisa”(问推广官员):为乌干达农村文化水平低的农业社区提供短信服务
Daniel Ninsiima
This paper presents a study of a mobile based question and answer platform --- Buuza-Omulimisa --- that enables farmers to interact with their respective extension officers in their own local dialects. The study was conducted in the two villages of Ssebbi and Bukalango Kakiri Sub-county, Wakiso district central Uganda from June through August 2014. The objectives of the study were to: (1) examine the effect of the use of farmers' own languages on the use of the system; (2) investigate the information needs of farmers; and (3) examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the system in comparison with the conventional extension system. We also intended to examine how existing local extension agents can be integrated in the implementation of ICT based services for agriculture --- to reduce operational costs. The study provided useful insights into how the use of farmers' own local languages in implementing SMS based systems affects adoption; and important lessons on the feasibility of integrating existing local extension agents in the implementation of ICT based services for agriculture as a way to reduce operational costs and achieve long term sustainability. Findings suggest that using farmers' own languages in ICT services makes it easy and quick for farmers to learn and use the system and thus increases chances of adoption. It also helps overcome issues of illiteracy as most farmers can read and write in their own languages but cannot do the same in English. Findings further suggest that involving local extension agents in the implementation of ICT-based services for agriculture instead of bypassing them, significantly reduces operational costs and makes sustainability of ICT initiatives possible.
本文介绍了一个基于移动的问答平台Buuza-Omulimisa的研究,该平台使农民能够用自己的当地方言与各自的推广人员进行互动。该研究于2014年6月至8月在乌干达中部瓦基索地区Ssebbi和Bukalango Kakiri副县两个村庄进行。这项研究的目的是:(1)研究使用农民自己的语言对系统使用的影响;(2)调查农户的信息需求;(3)通过与传统延伸系统的对比,检验该系统的有效性和效率。我们还打算研究如何将现有的地方推广机构整合到基于ICT的农业服务的实施中,以降低运营成本。该研究提供了有用的见解,说明在实施基于SMS的系统时使用农民自己的当地语言如何影响采用;以及关于将现有的地方推广机构纳入基于信息通信技术的农业服务实施的可行性的重要经验教训,以此作为降低运营成本和实现长期可持续性的一种方式。研究结果表明,在信息和通信技术服务中使用农民自己的语言可以使农民更容易、更快速地学习和使用该系统,从而增加采用该系统的机会。它还有助于克服文盲问题,因为大多数农民可以用自己的语言读写,但不能用英语读写。研究结果进一步表明,让当地推广机构参与实施基于信息通信技术的农业服务,而不是绕过它们,可以显著降低运营成本,并使信息通信技术举措的可持续性成为可能。
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引用次数: 10
Graspeo: a social media platform for knowledge management in NGOs Graspeo:非政府组织知识管理的社交媒体平台
A. Vozniuk, A. Holzer, Sten Govaerts, J. Mazuze, D. Gillet
Timely access to critical information is crucial for any organization operating in situations of emergency. Deploying an adequate information system tailored to specific organizational needs and matched to the organizational structure is essential. To understand the knowledge management needs of Médecins Sans Frontières, one of the leading NGOs in the humanitarian and medical fields, we conducted in total 145 hours of in-depth interviews. This paper presents three identified key requirements for an effective knowledge management system specifically designed for large distributed NGOs, like MSF. Additionally, we introduce a novel social media called Graspeo designed and built from ground up to fulfill these requirements.
对于在紧急情况下运作的任何组织来说,及时获得关键信息至关重要。部署适合特定组织需要并与组织结构相匹配的适当信息系统是必不可少的。无国界医生组织是人道主义和医疗领域的主要非政府组织之一,为了解该组织的知识管理需求,我们进行了总共145小时的深入访谈。本文提出了专门为像无国界医生这样的大型分布式非政府组织设计的有效知识管理系统的三个确定的关键要求。此外,我们还介绍了一种名为Graspeo的新型社交媒体,它是从头开始设计和构建的,以满足这些需求。
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引用次数: 8
Assessing outcome and impact: towards a comprehensive evaluation approach in ICT4D 评估结果和影响:迈向ICT4D的综合评估方法
Hafeni Mthoko, Caroline Khene
It is well documented that ICTs are tools for development. However, there is still a need to comprehensively demonstrate the tangible and intangible effects that ICTs have towards development. A framework for the assessment of the outcomes and impacts of ICT4D is proposed, which provides guidelines for the critical aspects of a project that should be assessed and taken into account when conducting an outcome and impact assessment of rural ICT4D. This framework is based on a comprehensive approach to evaluation and forms part of continuous research on the rural ICT comprehensive evaluation framework (RICT-CEF). From this study five key themes have been identified based on a theoretical analysis and field observations. These themes include strategic value', 'empowerment', 'livelihoods', 'most significant change' and 'sustainability'.
信息通信技术是促进发展的工具,这一点有据可查。然而,仍有必要全面展示信息通信技术对发展的有形和无形影响。提出了一个评估ICT4D成果和影响的框架,该框架为项目的关键方面提供了准则,在对农村ICT4D进行成果和影响评估时,应该对这些方面进行评估和考虑。该框架以综合评价方法为基础,是农村信息通信技术综合评价框架(ICT- cef)持续研究的一部分。根据理论分析和实地观察,本研究确定了五个关键主题。这些主题包括“战略价值”、“赋权”、“生计”、“最重要的变化”和“可持续性”。
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