Open data has rapidly moved from being a niche interest, to being part of the global policy
mainstream. Government-led open data initiatives have spread across the globe, and civil …

HCI researchers work within spaces of possibility for potential designs of technology. New
methods (eg, user centrism); expected types of interaction (user with device); and potential …

Through the Open Government Partnership, governments from more than 50 countries have
committed to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new …

Over the past decades information system developers and knowledge engineers in ICT
projects in wealthy regions of the world have come to realize that technical work can only be …

We present a study conducted in rural Northern Ghana about issues around the marketing of
agricultural products and the need of mobile-based ICT solutions. The need for the spread of …

Despite its tremendous success, the World Wide Web can still not used by large parts of the
world's population. Therefore, many people, especially in rural areas of developing …

Abstract The Linked Data movement has facilitated efficient data sharing in many domains.
However, people in rural developing areas are mostly left out. Lack of relevant content and …

The growing demand for user-centered, sustainable, collaborative and ecosystem-aware
ICT4D programs and projects brings requirements for education of a new generation ICT4D …

This document constitutes a brief report from the Dagstuhl Seminar on the" Multilingual
Semantic Web" which took place at Schloss Dagstuhl between September 3rd and 7th …

Development of fully featured Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems for a complete
language vocabulary generally requires large data repositories, massive computing power …