2. Need for information sharing in rural
developing areas
• Agricultural, Health,
Education, Market prices…
Sharing (heterogeneous)
knowledge is essential
• LD is well-suited because of:
– Language-agnostic
– Interface-agnostic
– De-centralised authoring
• Slicing
– Re-usability
• Local
• Global
Based on Sbc4d.com
3. Information sharing should be made
1. usable on small, affordable,
hardware deployed in various
connectivity contexts;
2. accessible to individuals with
varied cultural backgrounds /
literacy levels;
3. relevant and directly useful to
the target public they aim to
empower.
Infrastructure
Interface Relevancy
4. With the mainstream
Dev. countries can leapfrog directly into the
information age,
jumping many phases of immature technologies
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