Design, Development and Deployment of a Mobile E-Commerce Application for Rural South Africa -A Case Study

Author

Chipangura, B. ; Terzoli, A. ; Muyingi, H. ; Krishna Rao, G.S.V.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fort Hare Univ., Alice

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

20-22 Feb. 2006

Firstpage

1479

Lastpage

1484

Abstract

Fort Hare University is located in the rural town of Alice in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The university runs several poverty alleviation projects in those villages to help the people. One of the prospering projects is the Lingelihle cooperative which specializes on making handmade artifacts for sale. The computer science department built an e-commerce Web site for marketing the products to the world. In this project we report on the mobile e-commerce application that we designed for this cooperative

Keywords

Web design; electronic commerce; mobile computing; Alice; Eastern Cape province; Fort Hare University; Lingelihle cooperative; computer science department; e-commerce Web site; handmade artifacts; mobile e-commerce application; poverty alleviation projects; rural South Africa; Africa; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer networks; Computer science; Mobile computing; Operating systems; Pervasive computing; Usability; User interfaces; Mobile computing; database; usability; wireless network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Communication Technology, 2006. ICACT 2006. The 8th International Conference

Conference_Location

Phoenix Park

Print_ISBN

89-5519-129-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACT.2006.206264

Filename

1625869