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Neha Kumar,Waylon Brunette,Nicola Dell,Trevor Perrier,Beth Kolko,Gaetano Borriello,Richard Anderson
Pág. pp. 17 - 22 pgs.
Health workers in understaffed and overstrained low-resource environments suffer from complex and demanding workloads. We discuss three mobile health (mHealth) deployments in India, Kenya, and Zimbabwe that we designed to assist frontline health workers....
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Rebecca Walton,Judith Yaaqoubi,Beth Kolko
Pág. pp. 69 - 84 pgs.
Research on Internet usage in developing regions typically focuses on user demographics or challenges to usage. However, few studies explore the needs and desires of users in developing regions?that is, what users want from the Internet?and even fewer co...
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Michael L. Best,Dhanaraj Thakur,Beth Kolko
Pág. pp. 75 - 89 pgs.
We examine the extent to which user-based subsidies can promote the financial/social sustainability and development impact of telecenters. We do this by looking at a coupon scheme used by the USAID funded eCenter network in Kyrgyzstan. We found that user...
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Cynthia Putnam,Emma Rose,Erica J. Johnson,Beth Kolko
Pág. pp. 51 - 74 pgs.
User-centered design (UCD) methods such as personas and scenarios are useful tools for communicating extensive user research to design teams. However, the intensive data collection and onsite fieldwork required to create personas and scenarios can presen...
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Rebecca Walton,Cynthia Putnam,Erica Johnson,Beth Kolko
Pág. pp. 1 - 18 pgs.
In regions with developing or transitioning economies, information and communication technology (ICT) skills are expected to provide potential employees a significant edge in securing comparatively high-paying jobs. However, ICT skills are not binary (i....
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Beth E. Kolko,Carolyn Y. Wei,Jan H. Spyridakis
Pág. pp. 1?19 p
This article reports on an ongoing investigation of Internet development in Central Asia. Begun in 2000, the research currently focuses on recent developments in Uzbekistan, including changes in legislation governing telecommunications. The results of tw...
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