TY - GEN
T1 - Kasadaka: a Voice Service Development Platform to Bridge the Web's Digital Divide
AU - Baart, André
AU - Bon, Anna
AU - De Boer, Victor
AU - Tuyp, Wendelien
AU - Akkermans, Hans
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The World Wide Web is a crucial open public space for knowledge sharing, content creation and application service provisioning for billions on this planet. Although it has a global reach, still more than three billion people do not have access to the Web, the major ity of whom live in the Global South, often in rural regions, under low-resource conditions and with poor infrastructure. However the need for knowledge sharing, content creation and application service provisioning is no less on the other side of this Digital Di vide. In this paper we describe the Kasadaka platform that supports easy creation of local-content and voice-based information services targeted at currently ‘unconnected’ populations and matching the associated resource and infrastructural requirements. The Kasadaka platform and especially its Voice Service Development Kit supports the formation of an ecosystem of decentralized voice-based infor mation services that serve local populations and communities. This is, in fact, very much analogous to the services and functionalities offered by the Web, but in regions where Internet and Web are absent and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
AB - The World Wide Web is a crucial open public space for knowledge sharing, content creation and application service provisioning for billions on this planet. Although it has a global reach, still more than three billion people do not have access to the Web, the major ity of whom live in the Global South, often in rural regions, under low-resource conditions and with poor infrastructure. However the need for knowledge sharing, content creation and application service provisioning is no less on the other side of this Digital Di vide. In this paper we describe the Kasadaka platform that supports easy creation of local-content and voice-based information services targeted at currently ‘unconnected’ populations and matching the associated resource and infrastructural requirements. The Kasadaka platform and especially its Voice Service Development Kit supports the formation of an ecosystem of decentralized voice-based infor mation services that serve local populations and communities. This is, in fact, very much analogous to the services and functionalities offered by the Web, but in regions where Internet and Web are absent and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
KW - Digital divide
KW - Low literacy
KW - Low-resource hardware
KW - Services development software kit
KW - Sub-Saharan Africa
KW - Voice-based services
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UR - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2120
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049755147
T3 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
BT - P-ICT4D 2018 Perspectives on ICT4D
A2 - Bon, Anna
A2 - de Boer, Victor
A2 - Guéret, Christophe
A2 - Diallo, Gayo
A2 - Gordijn, Jaap
PB - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Symposium "Perspectives on ICT4D", P-ICT4D 2018
Y2 - 27 May 2018
ER -