E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries: First International ICST Conference, AFRICOM 2009, Maputo, Mozambique, December 3-4, 2009, Proceedings ... and Telecommunications Engineering)

3642127002......Page 1
Lecture Notes of the Institute
for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics
and Telecommunications Engineering 38......Page 2
E-Infrastructures
and E-Services
on Developing Countries......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Organization......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Related Work......Page 13
Argumentative Serious Games......Page 15
Educational and COTS Serious Games......Page 16
Serious Game Features......Page 17
Use of Serious Games in Formal Educational Settings......Page 18
Conclusion and Future Work......Page 19
References......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Overall Design of Hadeda......Page 23
Internet Website......Page 24
Java Midlet......Page 25
Educational Issues......Page 26
Indigenous Voices......Page 27
Pilots......Page 28
References......Page 29
Introduction......Page 31
Procedure......Page 32
Classification Framework......Page 33
Results of Classification......Page 35
Summary and Conclusions......Page 37
References......Page 38
Introduction......Page 43
Network Description......Page 44
Performance Conclusions......Page 46
Challenges......Page 48
Conclusions......Page 49
References......Page 50
Introduction......Page 51
e-Justice and e-Government......Page 52
e-Justice......Page 53
ICT Implementations towards e-Government......Page 54
ICT Implementations towards e-Justice......Page 55
SWOT Analysis......Page 56
The e-Justice Solution......Page 57
Proposed Framework of Implementing e-Justice......Page 58
Conclusion......Page 59
References......Page 60
Introduction......Page 61
Challenges of ICT-Supported PA......Page 62
Framework for Supporting PA......Page 63
Intermediate Representation of Model Elements......Page 64
System Components......Page 65
Case Study......Page 66
Conclusion and Future Work......Page 68
References......Page 69
Location......Page 71
Local Technical Environment......Page 72
Project Goals......Page 73
Application Selection......Page 74
Application Development......Page 75
User Created Content......Page 77
Lessons Learned......Page 78
Limited Internet......Page 79
References......Page 80
Introduction......Page 81
Background on the South African Electoral System......Page 82
Electoral System Characteristics......Page 83
Punch Card Voting Systems......Page 84
Internet Voting System......Page 85
Electronic Voting Characteristics......Page 86
References......Page 87
Introduction......Page 89
Materials and Methods......Page 90
The Poor WLAN......Page 91
Home-Made Cantenna......Page 92
Low-Cost Antenna Mast......Page 94
Network Implementation......Page 95
References......Page 96
Introduction......Page 97
Chronology......Page 99
Technology Description......Page 100
Methodology......Page 101
Results......Page 102
Conclusions and Final Remarks......Page 104
References......Page 105
Introduction......Page 106
Conceptual Background......Page 107
Current Use of Mobile Phones......Page 108
Challenges Being Faced......Page 109
Influence of Use Context (Installed Base) on Mobile Phone Use......Page 111
Application-Centric Opportunities and Challenges: Paradoxes of Mobile Phone Use......Page 112
References......Page 114
Introduction......Page 116
Challenges in Implementation of GIS......Page 117
Methodology......Page 118
The Drug LMIS......Page 119
The Proposed GIS......Page 120
Opportunities and Challenges on Standards and Data Integration......Page 122
Opportunities and Challenges on Organisation......Page 123
Opportunities and Challenges on Technology......Page 125
References......Page 126
Motivation and Concept......Page 127
Vision and Challenges......Page 128
Example......Page 130
Relevant Work......Page 131
To Develop a Novel Adaptive Modulation and Coding Scheme to Optimize Energy Consumption......Page 132
To Develop a Network Monitoring System and Cognitive Self-configuration and Self-management Mechanisms to Cope with the Unreliability of the Environment of Emerging Regions......Page 133
First Steps towards a Solution......Page 134
Conclusions......Page 135
References......Page 136