Challenges and novelties while using mobile phones as ICT devices for Indian masses

Yadav, Kuldeep; Naik, Vinayak; Singh, Amarjeet; Singh, Pushpendra; Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam; Chandra, Umesh

doi:10.1145/1836001.1836011

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“…Studies (e.g. Yohakim and Mlozi, 2012; Yadav et al, n.d; Mansell, 2012; Sinha, 2005) observe that lack of electricity, poverty, lack of skills and knowledge, and low literacy levels impede the effective adoption and application of mobile phones in developing countries like Tanzania. Sinha (2005) asserts that diverse indigenous languages and strong oral traditions and nomadic lifestyles contribute to poor adoption of mobile phones.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Use of mobile phones among agro-pastoralist communities in Tanzania

Mwantimwa

2017

Information Development

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The study examined the usage of mobile phones among agro-pastoralists in Monduli and Bagamoyo districts in Tanzania. The study used a mixed approach in collecting and analysing the resultant data. The study’s findings reveal that individual and technology characteristics are important factors for mobile phone ownership and usage among agro-pastoralists. Further, the findings suggest that effective use of mobile phones presents a huge opportunity for improving information access for agro-pastoralist communities, so supporting their poverty reduction programs. Accordingly, usage of mobile phone technologies can offset some of the effects of neglected rural infrastructure and make rural development sustainable and competitive. The study concludes that there is an urgent need to re-think and re-orient the development thrust and deploy mobile phones to address business transaction and information access problems and supplement development-related information provided by other media.

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“…Other studies (e.g. Yadav, n.d.) show that low security and privacy levels for data transferred are increasingly becoming critical challenges for mobile phone users.…”

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Use of mobile phones among agro-pastoralist communities in Tanzania

Mwantimwa

2017

Information Development

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“…This is true both from a usability [10,18] and technological [21] perspective. This paper offers insight into the aspects that such a solution should consider.…”

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Designing a voice-based employment exchange for rural India

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Duggirala

Kummamuru

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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We present observations from various user studies that have helped to guide the design and deployment of a voice-based employment platform. Specifically, we present findings as a function of demographics, considering employers and candidates across two regions of Karnataka. Our results are of use to those building interfaces to address rural unemployment in particular, and those looking to understand the employment landscape of rural India in general. Our main contributions are motivating the need for such a platform in this context, and offering insight into the engineering of job matches.

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“…Sanitizing Location Names : As we have described earlier, 2 out of 3 CBS messages are advertisements that need to be filtered out. We have developed a regular expression which can filter out CBS advertisement and have found it to be almost 100% accurate in filtering out the advertisements [4].…”

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Alternative localization approach for mobile phones without GPS

Yadav

Naik

Singh

et al. 2010

Middleware '10 Posters and Demos Track

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Location is a primary indicator of context and forms the core basis of several context-aware applications. Most common way of getting location information is to use specialized hardware like GPS. However, GPS is expensive and is available only on high-end phones restricting its use to a smaller population in developing countries. Further, GPS also consumes a lot of battery power during its operation, thereby making it infeasible to run for longer durations with limited mobile phone battery. An alternative to GPS-based localization is GSM-based localization that is more suitable for developing countries due to much lower power consumption and ability to run even on low-end phones. Currently available, network-operator independent, GSM-based solutions require building perceptual map of cell towers in a city using war-driving.In this paper, we present a novel low cost GSM-based solution based on Cell Broadcast (CBS) Messages. Location accuracy in our approach does not depend on building extensive cell ID database, typically built using war-driving. We present empirical studies (performed in the sub-city of Dwarka, New Delhi, India) comparing location accuracy of our approach with other GSM-based localization scheme that uses one of the most extensive open source database of cell IDs. We also compare power consumption of our proposed solution with GPS-based localization leading to energy-accuracy tradeoff that can be further exploited for a hybrid solution.

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Challenges and novelties while using mobile phones as ICT devices for Indian masses

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Use of mobile phones among agro-pastoralist communities in Tanzania

Use of mobile phones among agro-pastoralist communities in Tanzania

Designing a voice-based employment exchange for rural India

Alternative localization approach for mobile phones without GPS

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