Folk-IS: opportunistic data services in least developed countries

N Anciaux, L Bouganim, T Delot, S Ilarri… - … Conference on Very …, 2014 - inria.hal.science
According to a wide range of studies, IT should become a key facilitator in establishing
primary education, reducing mortality and supporting commercial initiatives in Least …

Opportunistic data services in least developed countries: benefits, challenges and feasibility issues

N Anciaux, L Bouganim, T Delot, S Ilarri, L Kloul… - ACM SIGMOD …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
According to many studies, IT should become a key facilitator in establishing primary
education, reducing mortality or supporting commercial initiatives in Least Developed …

InDaMul: Incentivized data mules for opportunistic networking through smart contracts and decentralized systems

M Zichichi, L Serena, S Ferretti… - … : Research and Practice, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The rise of Internet-of-Things enables the development of smart applications devoted to
improving the quality of life in urban and rural areas, thus fostering the creation of smart …

Ateneo on fly: a system for supporting mobile sharing applications in campus scenarios

D Mansella, L Galluccio, A Leonardi… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
In this demo proposal we present Ateneo On Fly (AOF) that has been developed within a
project at University of Catania. AOF is a platform for mobile users services dedicated to …

Leveraging the cultural model for opportunistic networking in Sub-Saharan Africa

J Ouoba, TF Bissyandé - e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing …, 2013 - Springer
The immense potential of ICT for improving users' livelihood has been discussed in a large
body of literature and many instantiations in our daily life demonstrate this reality. In …

Opportunistic networks: A taxonomy of data dissemination techniques

RI Ciobanu, C Dobre - … Journal of Virtual Communities and Social …, 2013 - igi-global.com
When mobile devices are unable to establish direct communication, or when communication
should be offloaded to cope with large throughputs, mobile collaboration can be used to …

Designing an extensible communication platform for rural area

A Thakur, C Hota - 2014 international conference on advances …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rural digital connectivity in developing nations have failed to sustain themselves after
subsidy is removed. The demography of users does not demand Internet connectivity for …

Design and performance evaluation of ContentPlace, a social-aware data dissemination system for opportunistic networks

C Boldrini, M Conti, A Passarella - Computer Networks, 2010 - Elsevier
In this paper we present and evaluate ContentPlace, a data dissemination system for
opportunistic networks, ie, mobile networks in which stable simultaneous multi-hop paths …

CommunAir: Building Low-cost Community Data Infrastructure with Sensors, Spreadsheets, and Open Datasets

W Woo - 2022 - dspace.mit.edu
In the past few years, air quality in the Global South has become recognized as a significant
source of various health problems and general premature death. However, without …

Investigating an Architectural Framework for Small Data Platforms

M Thinyane - Data for societal challenges-17th European …, 2017 - books.google.com
The potential of data to support solutions to some of the global grand challenges is
uncontested. This potential is recognized and confirmed through the articulation of …