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dc.contributor.author | Dittoh, F. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Boer, V. D. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bon, A. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tuyp, W. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Baart, A. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-13T10:33:48Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-13T10:33:48Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 9781450379946 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4144 | - |
dc.description | 12th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2020 - Southampton, United Kingdom | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | A majority of the world remain unconnected to the World Wide Web due to issues like low literacy and relevant information. This study presents Mr. Meteo, a system that provides weather information via voice calls in local languages to rural farmers in Ghana. The study used an interdisciplinary approach to identify relevant informational needs and socio-economic implications, and early end-user and stakeholder involvement. Mr. Meteo was deployed in Bolgatanga, Ghana and represents a novel design in terms of actual web data access to rural areas. The positive feedback from farmers, and stakeholder’s interest in continuity, shows this approach to be an appropriate method of development and implementation of information systems for rural areas; successful due to end-user and stakeholder involvement, focus on existing technologies, the use of voice technologies to mitigate the problem of illiteracy, and information relevance to end-users. This paper presents the methodology and results of this novel, practical, local-context ICT4D project,that has produced a viable information system for rural communities | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | en_US |
dc.subject | Web Access | en_US |
dc.subject | Digital Divide | en_US |
dc.subject | Interdisciplinarity | en_US |
dc.subject | Literacy | en_US |
dc.subject | Voice Technologies | en_US |
dc.subject | Climate Change | en_US |
dc.subject | Sub-Saharan Africa | en_US |
dc.title | MR. METEO: PROVIDING CLIMATE INFORMATION FOR THE UNCONNECTED | en_US |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
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