A Comparison of Four End-User Devices as Thin Clients for Public Access to the Internet in Poor Communities

Duff, Kevin; Siebörger, Ingrid; Terzoli, Alfredo

Title: A Comparison of Four End-User Devices as Thin Clients for Public Access to the Internet in Poor Communities
Creator: Duff, Kevin
Creator: Siebörger, Ingrid
Creator: Terzoli, Alfredo
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430892
Identifier: vital:72725
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16886-9_24
Description: In poor areas, where ICT infrastructure is being deployed with devel-opmental aims, there is a need to provide appropriate, sustainable technologies that meet the needs of the local community. Current trends for ICT interventions favour the use of mobile user equipment, such as tablets and cellphones, but we think that they are inappropriate to allow production as opposed to mainly consumption of digital con-tent, at least for the foreseeable future. Thus our objective is to reduce the cost of deployment of traditional communal Internet Access Points using PCs. In this paper we compare four candidate computers to be used as thin clients in such settings, according to seven different cate-gories. Our study identifies the strengths, weaknesses and problems of each device, and concludes with recommendations for anybody wish-ing to deploy such devices as Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) thin clients in a public Internet Access Point.
Format: 9 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: 6th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2014
Relation: Duff, K., Siebörger, I. and Terzoli, A., 2015. A Comparison of Four End-User Devices as Thin Clients for Public Access to the Internet in Poor Communities. In e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: 6th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2014, Kampala, Uganda, November 24-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers 6 (pp. 229-238). Springer International Publishing
Relation: e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: 6th International Conference, AFRICOMM 2014 volume 2015 number 1 229 238 2015 978-3-319-16886-9
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