Village eLearning: An offline mobile solution to rural communities’ knowledge requirement

Abstract

This paper presents an offline mobile eLearning concept as an ICT solution to address the knowledge requirements of a rural sub-Saharan farming community. A socio-technical customisation and deployment of WikiReaders is proposed to support offline mobile access to digital content. A future use scenario is presented as a demonstration of cheap but sustainable innovation emerging from a longitudinal evaluation of users, their needs and their context. Mobile eLearning, socio-technical, sub-Saharan rural communities, ICT for development.