Title :
WishVast: Building trust and social capital using cellphones
Author :
Mehta, Khanjan ; Semali, Ladislaus
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng. Coll. of Educ., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the basic concepts and operation of a cellphone-based social networking system called WishVast. WishVast is an innovation that attempts to harness the pervasiveness of cellphones in developing countries to build trust and optimize resource utilization & supply chains to facilitate people to people trade with the ultimate goal of alleviating poverty.
Keywords :
mobile handsets; social networking (online); WishVast networking system; cellphone based social networking system; resource utilization optimization; social capital; supply chains optimization; Cellular phones;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009. IMCSIT '09. International Multiconference on
Conference_Location :
Mragowo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5314-6
DOI :
10.1109/IMCSIT.2009.5352699
