E-skills training on communal, fixed infrastructure as an activator of personal use of mobile internet

Gumbo, Sibukelo; Terzoli, Alfredo

Title: E-skills training on communal, fixed infrastructure as an activator of personal use of mobile internet
Creator: Gumbo, Sibukelo
Creator: Terzoli, Alfredo
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2013
Date: 2013
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430716
Identifier: vital:72710
Identifier: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6701781
Description: In the second semester of 2012, training in computer literacy was of-fered in the Dwesa area, in deep rural South Africa, within the footprint of the Siyakhula Living Lab. Training of this nature is essential to make ICT access meaningful in such areas, and avoid wasteful `box drop-ping', unfortunately not uncommon. The training was done using com-munal fixed infrastructure located in schools but, interestingly, activated or deepened the use of mobile intemet among the people that attended the training. This paper contributes on the ongoing debate on whether mobile devices are the one and only solution to ICT access in rural (and peri-urban) poor settings in Africa.
Format: 6 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: IST-Africa Conference and Exhibitions
Relation: Gumbo, S. and Terzoli, A., 2013, May. E-skills training on communal, fixed infrastructure as an activator of personal use of mobile internet. In 2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition (pp. 1-7). IEEE
Relation: IST-Africa Conference and Exhibitions volume 2013 number 1 1 7 2013 978-1-905824-38-0
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