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Hacking for Southern Africa: Collaborative development of hyperlocal services for marginalised communities 南部非洲的黑客:为边缘社区合作开发超本地化服务
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530656
Aaron Ciaghi, Tatenda Chatikobo, L. Dalvit, Darsha Indrajith, M. Miya, Pietro Benedetto Molini, Adolfo Villafiorita
This paper describes a collaborative experience in the initial development of hyperlocal services for marginalised communities in Southern Africa. Problems specific to urban, peri-urban and rural contexts were identified in collaboration with local community members and NGOs in South Africa and Angola. Selected topics were presented to a group of volunteer developers for initial proof-of-concept application development at an event hosted in Italy. The volunteers produced 6 prototype applications that were demonstrated at the end of the event to a panel of experts and members of one of the interested rural communities.
本文描述了为南部非洲边缘化社区提供超地方服务的初步发展中的合作经验。在南非和安哥拉与当地社区成员和非政府组织合作,查明了城市、近郊和农村情况下的具体问题。在意大利举办的一次活动中,选定的主题被提交给一组志愿开发人员,用于初始概念验证应用程序的开发。志愿者们制作了6个原型应用程序,并在活动结束时向一个专家小组和一个感兴趣的农村社区的成员进行了演示。
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引用次数: 11
mHealth implementation in South Africa 移动医疗在南非的实施
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530667
A. Botha, Vathiswa M. Booi
Amid the rapid proliferation of first mobile devices and lately, mobile broadband, South Africa is uniquely situated to harness the promises that Mhealth have been reported to hold. Over the past years, Mhealth implementations have spread to incorporate a wide range of Mhealth applications to service the Health System information needs and end user needs. This paper aims to describe the current state of mHealth applications and implementation in South Africa by a review of reported MHealth Implementations and the stakeholders that collaborate in the space.
随着第一代移动设备和最近的移动宽带的迅速普及,南非处于独特的位置,可以利用移动医疗所带来的承诺。在过去的几年里,移动健康的实施已经扩展到包括广泛的移动健康应用程序,以服务于卫生系统信息需求和最终用户需求。本文旨在通过对报告的移动健康实施和在该领域合作的利益相关者的审查来描述南非移动健康应用和实施的现状。
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引用次数: 20
The effects of a corpus on isiZulu spellcheckers based on N-grams 语料库对基于n -gram的isiZulu拼写检查器的影响
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530643
Balone Ndaba, H. Suleman, C. Keet, Langa Khumalo
Correct spelling contributes to good content accessibility and readability for textual documents. However, there are few spellcheckers for Bantu languages such as isiZulu, the major language in South Africa. The objective of this research is to investigate development of spellcheckers for isiZulu and, more generally, an approach that can be reused across Bantu languages. To fill this gap in an extensible way, we used data-driven statistical language models with trigrams and quadrigrams. The models were trained on three different isiZulu corpora, being Ukwabelana, a selection of the isiZulu National Corpus, and a small corpus of news items. The system performed better with trigrams than with quadrigrams, and performance depended on the training and testing corpora. When the system was trained with old text (bible in isiZulu), it did not perform well when tested with the two corpora that contain more recent texts, such as the constitution and news items. The highest accuracy obtained was 89%. Given that data-driven statistical language models constitute a language-independent approach, we conclude that data-driven spellcheckers for all Bantu languages are indeed feasible. They are, however, sensitive to the training and testing data. This is less resource-intensive compared to manual specification of rules, and therefore the potential impact on realising spellcheckers for Bantu languages is now practically within reach. The potential societal impact of spellchecker-supported tools and apps is incalculable.
正确的拼写有助于文本文档的内容可访问性和可读性。然而,班图语的拼写检查器很少,比如南非的主要语言isiZulu。本研究的目的是调查isiZulu的拼写检查器的发展,更一般地说,是一种可以跨班图语言重用的方法。为了以一种可扩展的方式填补这一空白,我们使用了数据驱动的统计语言模型,其中包含三元组和四元组。这些模型在三个不同的isiZulu语料库上进行了训练,分别是Ukwabelana, isiZulu国家语料库的一个选择,以及一个小的新闻项目语料库。该系统在使用三元组时比使用四元组时表现更好,并且性能取决于训练和测试语料库。当系统用旧文本(isiZulu语的《圣经》)进行训练时,它在用两种包含较新文本(如宪法和新闻)的语料库进行测试时表现不佳。获得的最高准确率为89%。考虑到数据驱动的统计语言模型构成了一种与语言无关的方法,我们得出结论,所有班图语言的数据驱动拼写检查器确实是可行的。然而,他们对训练和测试数据很敏感。与手动规范规则相比,这节省了大量资源,因此对班图语拼写检查器的潜在影响现在已经触手可及。支持拼写检查的工具和应用程序的潜在社会影响是不可估量的。
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引用次数: 29
Prototyping mAgriculture applications among smallholder farmers 在小农中示范农业应用
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530687
A. Gichamba, Peter Waiganjo, D. Orwa, R. Wario, B. Ngari
mAgriculture applications are gaining popularity in developing countries, with various services provided on the mobile platform. However, most of the applications do not get to the extent of widespread adoption, due to reasons that include but not limited to poor requirements gathering process that does not fully accommodate the intended user, poor design principles, development or deployments. In this research paper, we looked at the process of prototyping an mAgriculture application among smallholder farmers. The research involved 56 farmers from Kirinyaga and Embu counties in Kenya. The aim of this research was to evaluate the usage of an mAgriculture platform and to identify the factors that influence the usage of an mAgriculture application among smallholder farmers. The study identified various key factors that determine the usage of mAgriculture applications, as well as key considerations that should be considered for mAgriculture applications.
农业应用程序在发展中国家越来越受欢迎,在移动平台上提供各种服务。然而,大多数应用程序没有达到广泛采用的程度,原因包括但不限于不能完全适应预期用户的糟糕的需求收集过程、糟糕的设计原则、开发或部署。在这篇研究论文中,我们研究了在小农户中建立一个农业应用程序原型的过程。这项研究涉及肯尼亚Kirinyaga和Embu县的56名农民。本研究的目的是评估农业平台的使用情况,并确定影响小农使用农业应用程序的因素。该研究确定了决定农业应用程序使用的各种关键因素,以及农业应用程序应该考虑的关键因素。
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引用次数: 5
Digital TV accessibility — Analogue switch off in Europe and Africa 数字电视的可访问性-在欧洲和非洲关闭模拟开关
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530658
T. Itagaki, T. Owens, P. Orero
17 June 2015 was the deadline for the switchover from analogue to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTV) in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The DTV4ALL Project was a project funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme to facilitate the provision of access services on digital television across the European Union; The call for proposals under which the project was funded was issued in response to the switch-off of analogue terrestrial television service in Europe being set to begin in 2012. The motivation for the call was to ensure the switchover would take place in such a way as to be favourable to the provision of access services. This paper summarises the main lessons learned from the DTV4ALL Project in terms of the provision of access services on DTV and highlights their possible application in Africa for the purposes of fostering e-inclusion and e-accessibility through digital TV.
2015年6月17日是欧洲、非洲、中东和中亚从模拟向数字地面电视(DTV)转换的最后期限。DTV4ALL项目是欧洲委员会在国际信息和通信技术政策支持计划下资助的一个项目,旨在促进在整个欧洲联盟提供数字电视接入服务;该项目的提案征集是为了回应欧洲将于2012年开始关闭模拟地面电视服务。提出这一要求的动机是确保这种转换将以有利于提供接入服务的方式进行。本文总结了DTV4ALL项目在提供数字电视接入服务方面的主要经验教训,并强调了它们在非洲的可能应用,目的是通过数字电视促进电子包容和电子无障碍。
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引用次数: 4
Use of Social Media to strengthen Service Delivery for Urban Agriculture in Uganda 利用社会媒体加强乌干达城市农业的服务提供
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530594
Gorretti Byomire, F. Namisango, Maria Miiro Kafuko
The steadfast growth of cities in developing countries is accompanied by high levels of poverty and hunger which in turn forces urban dwellers to engage in farming activities to satisfy their food levels and sell the surplus. However these farmers lack acquisition of adequate knowledge and information to improve their farming practices. There is no forum that brings farmers together for lesson and message sharing. Social media as a form of ICT has caught a tremendous role of facilitating dissemination of agricultural information providing a platform for interaction between farmers. The study aimed at investigating the use of Social Media to strengthen service delivery for urban agriculture in Uganda using a survey. The results indicate that the use of social media for urban agriculture should consider the dimensions of: Perceived Value, Training, Social Influence and Social Awareness as factors for the successful use of Social Media to Strengthen Service Delivery for Urban Agriculture.
在发展中国家,城市的稳步增长伴随着高度的贫困和饥饿,这反过来又迫使城市居民从事农业活动,以满足他们的粮食水平,并出售剩余的粮食。然而,这些农民缺乏足够的知识和信息来改善他们的耕作方式。没有论坛将农民聚集在一起分享经验教训和信息。社交媒体作为信息通信技术的一种形式,在促进农业信息传播方面发挥了巨大作用,为农民之间的互动提供了一个平台。该研究旨在通过一项调查来调查社交媒体在乌干达加强城市农业服务提供方面的使用情况。研究结果表明,城市农业社会化媒体的使用应考虑感知价值、培训、社会影响和社会意识维度作为成功使用社会化媒体加强城市农业服务提供的因素。
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引用次数: 3
Development of an Online Biometric-enabled Class Attendance Register System 在线生物识别系统的开发
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530647
Victor Oluwatobiloba Adeniji, M. Scott, Nomnga Phumzile
This study presents an automated Online Biometric-enabled Class Attendance Register System (OBCARS) prototype. The system design and development is aimed at addressing the challenges of misplaced and/or torn attendance register paper sheets in various classrooms in Higher Educational Institutions. Also, the system is aimed at providing an efficient and effective class attendance tracking method that prevents attendance marking impersonation among students, and eases students' attendance record computation. The system adopted the use of biometric fingerprint reader for an individual student to input his/her attendance record for lectures attended in the system's back-end database. The system was tested with 50 students in the Department of Computer Science, University of Fort Hare Alice, South Africa for usability and fingerprint recognition accuracy. The test result indicated 97% accuracy at system level. The average execution time for student attendance tracking is 8.7 seconds against 22.6 seconds using paper attendance.
本研究提出了一个自动化的在线生物识别系统(OBCARS)原型。该系统的设计和开发旨在解决高等教育机构各种教室的考勤纸错位和/或撕裂的挑战。此外,该系统旨在提供一种高效有效的班级考勤跟踪方法,防止学生之间的考勤标记,并简化学生的考勤记录计算。该系统采用生物指纹识别器,让个别学生在系统的后端数据库输入他/她的听课记录。该系统在南非爱丽丝堡大学计算机科学系的50名学生身上进行了可用性和指纹识别准确性的测试。测试结果表明,系统级准确度为97%。学生考勤跟踪的平均执行时间为8.7秒,而使用纸质考勤的平均执行时间为22.6秒。
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引用次数: 9
HealthMessenger: An e-health service to support ICT deployments in poor areas HealthMessenger:一项电子保健服务,支持在贫困地区部署信通技术
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530632
C. Gremu, A. Terzoli, Mosiuoa Tsietsi
Development and implementation of appropriate e-services as well as revenue generation are key to deploying and sustaining ICT installations in poor areas in developing countries. The area of e-Health is a promising area for e-Services that are important to populations in poor areas and health service organisations that are already spending money on different health initiatives in these areas. This paper discusses an e-Health service that facilitates dissemination of health information to people living in poor areas and that is subsequently used to generate revenue to support deployment and development of ICT in the areas. The tool was developed within the context of the Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL), a multi-stakeholder operation that promotes ICT for Development in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Creation of health content for the e-health service and its subsequent consumption happen in two different environments from a technological and social point of view. To enable this to happen, the e-service comprises two component applications that run in a peer-to-peer fashion. The component that is used to disseminate content for end-user consumption is called the HealthMessenger. The HealthMessenger is hosted on an environment called TeleWeaver, an application integration platform developed within the SLL to host software applications targeting people living in poor areas. The platform is customised to support services with a revenue generation component.
开发和实施适当的电子服务以及创收是在发展中国家贫困地区部署和维持ICT设施的关键。电子保健领域是电子服务的一个有前途的领域,这对贫困地区的人口和已经在这些地区为不同的卫生倡议投入资金的卫生服务组织很重要。本文讨论了一项电子保健服务,该服务有助于向生活在贫困地区的人们传播卫生信息,并随后用于创造收入,以支持在这些地区部署和发展信息和通信技术。该工具是在Siyakhula生活实验室(SLL)的背景下开发的,Siyakhula生活实验室是一个多方利益相关者的行动,旨在促进南非东开普省的ICT促进发展。从技术和社会的角度来看,为电子保健服务创建健康内容及其随后的消费发生在两个不同的环境中。为了实现这一点,电子服务包含两个以点对点方式运行的组件应用程序。用于传播供最终用户使用的内容的组件称为HealthMessenger。HealthMessenger托管在一个名为TeleWeaver的环境中,这是一个在SLL内开发的应用程序集成平台,用于托管针对贫困地区人口的软件应用程序。该平台是定制的,以支持具有创收组件的服务。
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引用次数: 3
The influence of national culture on information security culture 民族文化对信息安全文化的影响
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530607
Sunthoshan G. Govender, E. Kritzinger, Marianne Loock
The strength of information security within organisations and countries is very much determined by the information security culture of people. The human factor of information security plays a significant role in securing information assets. National culture has an impact on organisational culture and therefore is also a consideration for enhancing information security culture. This research looks at the value of information security culture in organisations, frameworks for information security culture and the impact of national culture on organisational culture.
组织和国家内部信息安全的强度在很大程度上取决于人们的信息安全文化。信息安全中的人为因素对信息资产的安全起着至关重要的作用。民族文化对组织文化有影响,因此也是加强信息安全文化的考虑因素。本研究着眼于信息安全文化在组织中的价值,信息安全文化框架以及国家文化对组织文化的影响。
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引用次数: 14
Information security management in local government 地方政府信息安全管理
Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530584
Joshua De Lange, Rossouw von Solms, M. Gerber
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become so pervasive in most organizations, that business functions are almost completely dependent on it. ICT is the platform that enables most of the organization's information processing and storage. Within the context of local government, this is also the case as ICT plays a crucial role in achieving their goal of service delivery to their communities. Due to its high importance, the information and related ICT systems should be adequately protected by the process of information security management. However, the problem remains that the efforts of local government in addressing information security is unsatisfactory. In order to address this, the objective of this paper is to propose an architecture, combined with a process model, which aims to assist local government to improve their information security management. This architecture and process model was refined by engaging with practitioners within local government and is not only applicable to South Africa, but also the rest of Africa.
信息和通信技术(ICT)在大多数组织中已经变得如此普遍,以至于业务功能几乎完全依赖于它。信息通信技术是实现组织大部分信息处理和存储的平台。在地方政府的背景下,情况也是如此,因为ICT在实现向社区提供服务的目标方面发挥着至关重要的作用。由于信息及其相关信息通信技术系统的重要性,需要通过信息安全管理过程对其进行充分的保护。然而,问题仍然存在,地方政府在解决信息安全方面的努力并不令人满意。为了解决这个问题,本文的目标是提出一个体系结构,结合一个过程模型,旨在帮助地方政府改善其信息安全管理。这个体系结构和过程模型是通过与当地政府内的实践者接触而改进的,它不仅适用于南非,也适用于非洲其他地区。
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