Information Technologies and International Development
Designing an architecture for delivering mobile information services to the rural developing world
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Initial fieldwork for LWAZI: a telephone-based spoken dialog system for rural South Africa
AfLaT '09 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areas
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systems: touchtone vs. speech
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Freedom fone: dial-up information service
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
IHCI'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Interaction Design & International Development
Robit: an extensible auction-based market platform for challenged environments
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
Voice-based web access in rural Africa
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
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One of the several initiatives to bridge the digital divide in developing countries has been the deployment of information kiosks or knowledge centers in villages in rural parts of the country. These kiosks provide services ranging from email, chat and browsing to distance education programs, agricultural services and eGovernance services. A kiosk typically comprises of a computer with printer, web cam, multimedia system and Internet connectivity and is owned by a local entrepreneur. Moving away from the PC based kiosk model, we present an alternative platform to create and host such information kiosks in the telephony network. We call these as VoiKiosks and they are accessible through voice interaction over an ordinary phone call.