Reflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communication

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dc.contributor.authorTucker, William David
dc.contributor.authorBlake, Edwin H.
dc.contributor.authorMarsden, Gary
dc.contributor.authorPearson, Murray
dc.contributor.authorWesterveld, Rudi
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-07T09:48:15Z
dc.date.available2012-12-07T09:48:15Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports on three years of research and fieldwork with a rural wireless Internet Protocol communication project. We built a long-range WiFi network and custom communication software to support a rural telehealth project in the remote Eastern Cape. We report on our work using cellular networks, devices and applications as reference technologies because our users and beneficiaries are very comfortable with them. Of most concern are the technological and contextual issues affecting take up of the systems we designed. The paper intends to provide a summary analysis of our experience so that others in the field can learn from our successes and mistakes with respect to rural Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) in a South African context.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTelkom, Cisco, THRIP, SANPAD, IDRCen_US
dc.identifier.citationTucker, W. D., Blake, E. H., Marsden, G., Pearson, M., & Westerveld, R. (2007). Reflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communication. In D. Browne (ed.), Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), pp. 452–457), Mauritiusen_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-620-39350-8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/487
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherTelkomen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Telkom. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectICT for developmenten_US
dc.subjectInternet Protocolen_US
dc.subjectRural wireless networksen_US
dc.subjectShort Message Service (SMS)en_US
dc.subjectTelehealthen_US
dc.subjectTexten_US
dc.subjectVoice over IPen_US
dc.subjectVideo over IPen_US
dc.titleReflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communicationen_US
dc.typeConference Proceedingsen_US

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