The Strategic Implementation Plan for speeding up the transformation of European Cities
into" Smart cities" establishes 6 Actions Clusters and 11 Priority Areas. Some of them are …

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 …

E-Services have great potential, even in resource-poor environments such as in sub-
Saharan Africa. However, contextual factors pose significant challenges for development …

How can we design and build digital technologies for and together with people in poor areas
of the world, for goals chosen by themselves? And can we do this in a way that is inclusive …

Many ICT applications and services, including those from the Semantic Web, rely on the
Web for the exchange of data. This includes expensive server and network infrastructures …

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 …

Applications which use human speech as an input require a speech interface with high
recognition accuracy. The words or phrases in the recognised text are annotated with a …

Inaccessibility of knowledge has a great influence on the lack of development in rural areas
in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poor infrastructure and lack of education are just a few of the factors …

Despite many efforts, to make ICTs available for people in poor regions of the world,
sustaining ICTs as a service, after the end of a donor-funded project, remains a great …

In developing (rural) communities, the adoption of mobile phones is widespread. This allows
information to be offered to these communities through voice-based services. This research …