Despite an urgent need for social and technological innovation to improve wellbeing of
people and communities in poor regions of the world, information and communications …

In Africa, wide diffusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), particularly
mobile phones and Internet technology, has opened new opportunities for informal workers …

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 …

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 …

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

Open data policies and linked data publication are powerful tools for increasing
transparency, participatory governance, and accountability. The linked data community …

Despite its global reach, the World Wide Web still fails to serve about 3 billion people, the
majority living in the Global South, especially in poor, low-resource regions, where …

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 …

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 …