VOIce-based Community-cEntric mobile Services for social development

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dc.contributor.otherSalis, Carole
dc.contributor.partnerGEIE ERCIM-France-coordinatorIT
dc.contributor.partnerCouncil for scientific and industrial research-South Africa-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerEcole superieure multinationale de telecommunications-Senegal-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerPortugal Telecom Inovacao SA-Portugal-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerFondation Merieux-France-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerNoordwes Universiteit-South Africa-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerCRS4-Italy-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerSahel Eco-Mali-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerTNO-The Netherlands-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerFrance Telecom SA-France-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerVereniging voor Christelijk hoger onderwijs wetenschappelijk onderzoek en patientenzorg-The Netherlands-contractorIT
dc.contributor.partnerWorld Wide Web foundation-Switzerland-contractorIT
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-04T15:51:33Z
dc.date.available2013-11-04T15:51:33Z
dc.date.datafine2013-06-30
dc.date.issued2011-01-01
dc.description.abstractThere is widespread agreement that ICT services have the potential to play a major role in furthering social development in developing economies such as those in Africa. However, while there is a great deal of potential and opportunity, the amount and scope of actual mobile ICT services currently in existence in African countries is very limited.\n\nThe Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap, recently published as a result of the FP7 Digital World Forum project, makes it clear that realizing the potential of mobile ICT services requires addressing two major types of challenges:\n1. The leveraging of content that is locally relevant; and\n2. The removal of a range of access barriers, notably limitations related to access channels, literacy, and languages.\n\nVOICES intends to take a major step forward in realizing the potential of mobile ICT services particularly in the African context and resolve key challenges outlined in the Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap. To this end, the objectives of VOICES are to deliver:\n- Open and wider access: VOICES will improve voice-based access to content and mobile ICT services by building a toolbox for the development of voice services.\n- Integration of Local Community Radios and ICT.\n- Better support of languages: It will deliver tool support and methodology for under researched and under resourced African languages.\n- Long-term sustainability: To ensure the local adoption and exploitation of the VOICES tools and methods beyond the project, it will provide a sustainable architecture.\n- Faster uptake: VOICES will furthermore enhance uptake by delivering a mobile training lab that offers capacity building for local partners.\n\nVOICES will demonstrate the fitness of its results for adaptation to the African context by extensive local pilots and associated community building, namely through the focus on health services in Senegal, and agricultural and regreening knowledge sharing in the Sahel countries.IT
dc.description.contributionbudgetCRS4€ 193.303IT
dc.description.statusprogettoCRS4CompletatoIT
dc.identifier.reference269954IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11050/200
dc.identifier.websiteprojectwww.mvoices.euIT
dc.language.isoenIT
dc.subjectICT servicesIT
dc.subjectsocial development in developing economiesIT
dc.subjectvoice-based accessIT
dc.subject.een-cordisEEN CORDIS::ELETTRONICA, INFORMATICA E TELECOMUNICAZIONI::Telecomunicazioni, retiIT
dc.subject.progettiProgetti::Bando competitivo/Grant::Finanziamento europeo/internazionale::EC FP7, FP6, FP5::VOICES - VOIce based Community cEntric mobileIT
dc.subject.programProgram::Information SocietyIT
dc.titleVOIce-based Community-cEntric mobile Services for social developmentIT
dc.title.alternativeVOICESIT
dc.typeScheda progetto CRS4IT
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