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A Picture and A Thousand Words: Visual Scaffolding for Mobile Communications in Developing Regions

A Picture and A Thousand Words: Visual Scaffolding for Mobile Communications in Developing Regions
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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: 2011
Pages: 14
Source title: Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Dal Yong Jin (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-037-2.ch012

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Abstract

Mobile communication is a key enabler for economic, social and political change in developing regions of the world. The authors 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 these activities can support economic development. They describe Picture Talk, a mobile social computing 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. Picture Talk runs on today’s internet-enabled smartphones as well as camera phones with multimedia messaging, now available in many of these regions.

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