Kasadaka talk

Kasadaka a rapid prototyping platform for the rural poor

Awa Gossa Lô, Stefan Schlobach & Victor de Boer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Can the Web (be made to) mean something for information sharing even under very constraining conditions?

No internet, no computer, no electricity

Multitude of languages, levels of literacy

The last mile

Mobile phones, Radio, other interfaces as an alternative for the last mile connection?

European project (2010-2013)

• Integrate local community radios and mobile ICT for knowledge sharing

• Better support and integrate local languages in voice-based services– Development of appropriate speech

elements (text-to-speech and Speech recognition)

• Investigate self-sustainability – Develop appropriate business models – In collaboration with local communities.

June 2013Jan 2010

First cycle: Knowledge sharing for regreening

Second cycle:Use Case elicitation and

selection

RadioMarché: Pilot System development

(Malian French)

RM: 3rd version (Bambara,Bomu

)

Jan 2011 Jan 2012 Jan 2013

First field trip: Burkina Faso

Second field tripMali, Burkina Faso,

Ghana

RM: 4th version

Third field tripMali

Fourth field trip

Mali

Fifth field tripMali

Foroba Blon: pilot version

FB: 2nd version (Bambara,Bomu)

Third cycle: Requirements elicitation and

validation

Business Model integration

Sixthplanned field

tripMali

Fourth cycleUse case and Requirements

validation

Fifth cycle:Use case and Requirements

validation

Sept 2009

Cycle 0Preliminary

visitBF sept 2009

RM: 2nd version

(production version)

FB: 3rd version (Bambara,Bomu)

Local market data

Communiqué

GSM/Voice interface

Web Interface Text-To-Speech

Community radioSahel Eco operativeBuyers

Voice channel: Multiple solutions

Netbook running Prophecy

SIP over Ethernet

NetbookHTTP

Officeroute running Asterisk

Orange Emerginov Platform

Low-powered hardware running Asterisk

GSM dongle

Mobile users

VOICES User Content

VOICES Platform & Toolbox

Telecom Access

Radio ProgramOutput

Web Access

Mobile Training Lab

Local ICT developers

Speech

Tools

Local end-users

Sustainable business models

Mobileaccess

PRODUCTS

(Computer) literacyPhysical, Cultural distance

Complex and expensive hardware

Hinders iterative developmentHard to (co-)develop relevant applications

Rapid Prototyping

Use Case

Gathe-ring

RapidPrototy

ping

Prototyping

Deployment

Business Deployment

KASADAKA(.com)

Low-power, ubiquitous, cheap hardwareFLOSS componentsRapid Prototyping + deployment

Access informationVoice servicesSMS-based Visual

Internet or GSM network

Data store (Linked Data)

Kasadaka allows for easy development of information services relevant to local communities in their preferred language

KASADAKA(.com)

Rapid prototyping platform

André Baart(Bsc project)

DigiVet (N-Ghana)

Poultry vaccination service (Mali)

Seed market (Mali and Burkina Faso)

Current KASADAKA use cases

DigiVet

Gossa Lo, Myrthe van der Wekken, Romy Blankendaal

Network Institute Academy Assistant project 2015

Multi-disciplinary team

Extended field visit N-Ghana

Knowledge-based system(CommonKADS)

Seed market

https://github.com/biktorrr/voiceseedmarket

Welcome to the Seed market application. Would you like to

1) Sell 2) Buy 3) Have more information

What type or seeds1) Rice 2) fonio 3) nere 9) back

What type or seeds1) Rice 2) fonio 3) nere 9) back

What quality or seeds1) De base 2) R1 3) R2 9) back

What quality of seeds1) De base 2) R1 3) R2 9) back

What is your Cercle1) Tominian…. 9) back

You are offering…Is this correct?

1) yes, 2) no

Please enter phone nr.[phone]

You will now return to the main menu. You can also hang up

Plan de vaccination des poules

Amadou TangaraFARM RADIO

INTERNATIONAL MALI

Semantic Web in an SMS

?

Semantic Web in an SMS

Onno Valkering (Msc Project)

What’s new in this ICT4D research ?

New approach to innovation and ICT4D (e.g. bringing the Web to those without the internet)

Validation of iterative approaches to ICT development in a low-tech context;

Case studies from a rural area in Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana.

With the mainstream

Dev. countries can leapfrog directly into the information age,

jumping many phases of immature technologies

Img: flickr/n3v3rv0id

Development Informaticsas mainstream computer science research.

Test hypotheses in domains/environments

ICT4D Course @

MSc Computer Science course this year 4rd timeCore Computer Science: CS4D

Make students aware of importance of context

Hands-on experienceWith KASADAKA

Train CS researchers in ICT4D

Register now at http://w4ra.org