Cloud Computing for Rural ICT Implementations: Methods, Models, and Architectures

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Author(s): Mohamed Fazil Mohamed Firdhous (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 32
Source title: Delivery and Adoption of Cloud Computing Services in Contemporary Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Victor Chang (Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering, Leeds Beckett University, UK), Robert John Walters (Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK)and Gary Wills (Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8210-8.ch007

Keywords: Cloud Computing / Computer Science & IT / Engineering Science Reference / High Performance Computing

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Half of the world's population live in rural areas and majority of them are in developing countries. The rural population face many challenges in their life compared to their urban counterparts. Some of these challenges include high unemployment rate, limited employment opportunities in their areas, high brain drain to more developed cities, lack of access to education and healthcare facilities. Information and communication technology has been identified as the enabling technology that can be used to overcome the present day problems. There are several ICT projects implemented across the world with the objective of helping these rural masses. But many of these projects face sustainability challenges due to lack of resources. In this chapter, the author takes an in depth look at how cloud computing can be leveraged successfully to address the sustainability problem of current rural ICT implementation.

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