Kelsa+: Digital literacy for low-income office workers

Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi; Satpathy, Sambit; Zia, Lilian; Toyama, Kentaro; Blagsvedt, Sean; Pawar, Udai Singh; Subramaniam, Thanuja

doi:10.1109/ictd.2009.5426713

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“…So, she decided it was important to provide more than just the technology, and she ran a computer literacy course that taught the staff the basics of word processing, spreadsheets, and some educational software. 2 For some members of the staff, this was all the encouragement they needed. One of the building's security guards began using the PC in the basement to practice data-entry skills that he learned in an outside evening class.…”

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Toyama

2011

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2011

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“…One major line of ICTD research has focused on technology interventions, typically for lower-income communities. A small sample of Internet deployment models include community telecenter and kiosk projects in rural areas (critically surveyed in [50]); off-duty PC access for service employees in urban offices (e.g., Kelsa+ [38]); and "minimally intrusive" PC access in lowincome communities (e.g., Hole-in-the-Wall [30]). The middle classes are generally perceived as being served by the market and less in need of intervention research.…”

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“…We would like to briefly summarize the participants' perceptions of whether this intervention addressed some of their own goals that might be defined as "development" in a different, perhaps human development, sense. We do this by listing the kinds of usages that they felt were compelling enough to mention to us, whether instrumental [30,38], ludic [3,24,45], or symbolic [33,44]. Here we list some outcomes, but certainly not a complete list:…”

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"We call it Hi-Fi"

Sambasivan

Azad²,

Aoki

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

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As access to the Internet improves globally, we argue that speed is important for accelerated and full-fledged exploration of the Internet. We provided high-speed broadband service plans and Wi-Fi access points to 12 Internet-using Indian households in Delhi and Lucknow for three months. We sought to understand uptake, trajectories, behaviours, and developmental impact of the speed of the Internet on the daily lives of our respondents through a multi-phased study (baseline, in-situ usage, follow-up). Our findings suggest that high-speed Wi-Fi led to 2-3x increase in online activity and higher-bandwidth activities; spurred Internet skilling and instrumental uses online; shifted the time and space of device access; created social currency; and transformed the construct of Internet for the households. Ultimately, 8 out of the 12 households switched to high-speed Wi-Fi after the study concluded. We discuss considerations for policy and infrastructure deployments in introducing and onboarding new and existing users living with slow speeds to higher-quality networks.

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“…First, it has been observed that people in small communities in developing regions tend to have similar interests [14,17,32,43]. Second, the asynchronous web browsing model proposed in recent works [19,46] present an interesting opportunity to interject additional functionality into the web interaction loop not previously possible.…”

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Interactive web caching for slow or intermittent networks

Chen

Subramanian

2013

Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development

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We explore the limitations of existing caching mechanisms in slow networks and propose a new model of web caching designed for developing regions called interactive caching. Unlike conventional caching, interactive caching makes interacting with the cache the focus of web browsing when the connection is bad. Interactive caching achieves this by organizing the cache into topics for presentation to the user, optimizing for latency, and unaliasing cached content. In this paper we implement a prototypical version of interactive caching that includes: topic identification and presentation, a latency aware value function, DNS caching, and missing hyperlink suggestions. We evaluate our system based on a system implementation and web traces from multiple web cache deployments across different geographic locations in developing regions. We show how interactive caching can dramatically improve the user experience for slow connections by allowing users to explore the cache using trending topics that cover 60 -80% of requests and reducing page load times by up to 72.86%.

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Kelsa+: Digital literacy for low-income office workers

Cited by 6 publications

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