DocumentCode :
1090855
Title :
The aAQUA Approach: Innovative Web 2.0 Tools for Developing Countries
Author :
Ramamritham, Krithi ; Sahni, Saurabh ; Baru, Malathy ; Bahuman, Chaitra ; Chandran, Arun ; Joshi, Manjiri ; Bahuman, Anil
Author_Institution :
IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Volume :
12
Issue :
2
fYear :
2008
Firstpage :
62
Lastpage :
70
Abstract :
As in many regions of the world, people in rural India often lack access to knowledge that´s more readily available to people in urban areas. Although rural telecenters are becoming more common, developing content that´s presented in local languages, relevant to users, and delivered in an immediately usable form is a challenge here and in rural areas across the globe. To address this, an agricultural portal for rural farmers in India uses innovative database systems and information retrieval techniques. In so doing, it both improves service and addresses connection costs and constraints.
Keywords :
Internet; agriculture; information retrieval; portals; technology transfer; Web 2.0 tools; agricultural portal; database systems; developing countries; information retrieval techniques; rural India; rural farmers; Agriculture; Cities and towns; Costs; Database systems; Information retrieval; Internet; Multimedia databases; Portals; Urban areas; Weather forecasting; ICT for agriculture; Web portals; delay-tolerant applications; multilingual information retrieval; offline access with updates; online question-answering system;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1089-7801
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2008.45
Filename :
4463387
Link To Document :
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