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Addressing service delivery in rural areas through deployment of information and communication technology platforms

Author: Foko, Thato E ; Thulare, Tumiso ; Legare, Lebogang L ; Maremi, Keneilwe J Date: May 2017 ICTs have power to connect or provide access to poor people in remote rural villages. The initiatives to deploy ICTs in rural areas have mostly not been sustainable. The purpose of the paper is to ascertain what factors lead to the unsuccessful ... Read more
Adopting the alternate reality game approach in the design of the Singa environment

Author: Dlodlo, N ; Foko, Thato E ; Mvelase, PS Date: Jan 2010 Playing games, especially electronic games, is a popular free-time activity among children and adolescents and these games seem to have a prominent role in the culture of young people. It is with this in mind that the SINGA environment was ... Read more
Challenges facing eTextbook provision to South African schools

Author: Dlodlo, N ; Foko, Thato E Date: Oct 2012 One of the mandates of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) in South Africa is to distribute textbooks to both urban and remote rural schools. The challenge that the DBE faces in this regard is that the distribution machinery has not been ... Read more
Correlation between rapid learnability and user preference in IVR systems for developing regions

Author: Ndwe, TJ ; Barnard, E ; Foko, Thato E Date: May 2013 Access to information and communication is one of the most important needs in any population group. It is generally challenging for people in the developing world to access information because the tools and the technologies used to access ... Read more
Information and communication technology platforms deployment: Technology access reaches South African rural areas

Author: Foko, Thato E ; Thulare, T ; Legare, LL ; Maremi, Keneilwe J Date: May 2017 The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how robust ICT Platforms can provide rural communities with access and use of ICTs. The Platform contributes to the creating of an inclusive information society and a thriving knowledge economy in ... Read more
An integrated smart system for ambient-assisted living

Author: Foko, Thato E ; Dlodlo, N ; Montsi, L Date: Aug 2013 Ambient-assisted living (AAL) is an initiative to extend the time the elderly can live in their home environment by increasing their autonomy and assisting them carry out their daily activities. AAL systems exploit information and communication ... Read more
Intelligent fractions learning system: conceptual design

Author: Laine, TH ; Smith, Andrew C ; Foko, Thato E Date: Jan 2010 UFractions is a ubiquitous learning environment which combines mobile technology, tangible fraction blocks and a story-based game into a mathematical learning experience. In this paper the authors present a novel concept for monitoring a ... Read more
Planning a multi-institutional information for development study centre

Author: Moreno, A ; Sutinen, E ; Laine, TH ; Herselman, Martha E ; Isaac, Sherrin J ; Botha, Adèle ; Foko, Thato E Date: May 2010 This paper describes the processes followed in establishing an I4D Study Centre at the Meraka Institute (South Africa). The initiative started as a joint effort between the Meraka Institute (South Africa) and University of Eastern Finland ... Read more
Quantifying the visual perception skills of pre-school testees using a novel tangible electronic test instrument

Author: Smith, Andrew C ; Foko, Thato E ; Van Deventer, A Date: Nov 2008 Earlier studies discovered that South African testees from community schools do not have the required skills to participate in tertiary education and also lack many of the basic skills to compete successfully in certain sectors of society. ... Read more
Scientific collaborations on Living Labs: some lessons learnt from South Africa and Tanzania

Author: Herselman, Martha E ; Foko, Thato E ; Nungu, A ; Ng'amba, P ; Mgeni, M Date: Nov 2015 The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the specific lessons that were learnt when Tanzanian and South African Living Labs (LL) collaborated to support one another. It was a scientific collaboration which focussed on Living ... Read more
The state of affairs in Internet of Things research

Author: Dlodlo, N ; Foko, Thato E ; Mvelase, P ; Mathaba, S Date: Jun 2012 With the internet of things (IoT) being a new research area, the work that is going on in this field worldwide is disjoint. The picture is not clear on who is doing what and where, thereby making it difficult not only for newcomers into this ... Read more
The state of international Internet of Things research

Author: Dlodlo, N ; Mvelase, PS ; Foko, Thato E ; Mathaba, SU Date: Apr 2012 There is a massive increase in the amount of data that is generated globally. This data is traditionally generated by a number of different autonomous devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) is about interfacing these autonomous devices to ... Read more
Use of mobile technologies in enhancing learning in South Africa and the challenges of increasing digital divide

Author: Foko, Thato E Date: Jun 2009 Failure at school because children from the low socio-economic background have no access to information and communication technologies motivated this study. The realisation that even the poorest of the poor South Africans have access to mobile ... Read more

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