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A Picture and a Thousand Words: Visual Scaffolding for Mobile Communication in the Developing World
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Author(s): Robert Farrell (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Catalina Danis (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Thomas Erickson (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA), Jason Ellis (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Jim Christensen (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA), Mark Bailey (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA)and Wendy A. Kellogg (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 16
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Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts and Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Wen-Chen Hu (University of North Dakota, USA)and Yanjun Zuo (University of North Dakota, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-761-9.ch004
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Abstract
Mobile communication is a key enabler for economic, social and political change in developing regions of the world. Today’s internet-enabled multimedia and touch-screen mobile smartphones could become the future platform for delivering information and communication technology (ICT) to these regions. We describe Picture Talk, a smartphone application framework designed to facilitate local information sharing in regions with sparse Internet connectivity, low literacy rates and having users with little prior experience with information technology. We argue that engaging citizens in developing regions in information creation and information sharing leverages peoples’ existing social networks to facilitate transmission of critical information, exchange of ideas, and distributed problem solving. All of which can promote economic development.
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