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Designing for the African Prepaid Mobile Internet Generation

Aaron
September 18, 2014

Designing for the African Prepaid Mobile Internet Generation

A talk by Alette Schoon at FBK about designing ICT solutions in South African marginalized communities.

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September 18, 2014
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  1. Designing for the African prepaid mobile internet generation
 Alette Schoon

    Lecturer at Rhodes University and PhD student @ University of Cape Town
  2. South Africa – African trendsetter? • Dr Marion Walton –

    Prepaid Internet • http://vimeo.com/64710430 • ‘The New Wave’ report, written by Indra de Lanerolle, designed by Garage East © University of Witwatersrand • http://www.networksociety.co.za
  3. A different internet • Mobile – Expensive • Low-data i.e.

    text, photo, linkless • Network dependent – Edge, 2G • Feature phone – Java, Symbian, Blackberry, Android • Outside ‘the cloud’ of content creation – offline sharing i.e. Bluetooth • See Donner, Jonathan, Gitau, Shikoh, & Gary Marsden (2011). Exploring mobile-only internet use: results of a training study in urban South Africa. International Journal of Communication, 5, 574–597. (PDF)
  4. How do we design for prepaid internet generation? • Trickle

    internet • Lack of memory • Text / chat – Mxit USSD • Facebook Mobile apps • Outside the cloud – cloudlets? • Importance of Smart Bluetooth and shareable media • Backyard Computers and roving flash sticks • Android future
  5. Examples from UCT ICT4D lab • Gary Marsden – Big

    Board • Election media sharing via image recognition & bluetooth technology • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7326576.stm • Maunder, A., Marsden, G. & Harper, R. (2008) “SnapAndGrab – Accessing and sharing contextual multi-media content using Bluetooth enabled cameraphones and large situated displays.” Proceedings CHI 2008. Florence, Italy. ACM Press pp 2319-2323. (PDF)
  6. Examples from UCT ICT4D lab • Thomas Reitmaier, Gary Marsden,

    etc • solar powered charging station and Bluetooth data bank & slideshow media app
  7. Examples from UCT ICT4D lab • Refining Bluetooth – more

    settings for sharing • Based on Media Studies 
 Ethnography • Walton, M., Marsden, G., Hassreiter, S. & Allen, S. (2012) Degrees of Sharing: Proximate Media Sharing and Messaging by Young People in Khayelitsha. In Proceedings MobileHCI 2012. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 403-412 (PDF)
  8. Examples from UCT ICT4D lab • Mobile phones not just

    for media consumption – maximise haptic element • Beat generator for African rhythms – Mohato • https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=xNn2TEBgtfA