Reading-in-the-small: a study of reading on small form factor devices
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Exploring Small Screen Digital Library Access with the Greenstone Digital Library
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Customizing digital libraries for small screen devices
SAICSIT '04 Proceedings of the 2004 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
Universal access architecture for digital libraries
CASCON '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
License-Exempt Wireless Policy: Results of an African Survey
Information Technologies and International Development
Digital libraries for the developing world
interactions - Gadgets '06
Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Empowering Doctors through Information and Knowledge
ICADL 08 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Information Technology for Development
Mobility, digital libraries and a rural indian village
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium
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Health care practitioners rely on access to relevant and up-to-date medical information in order to effectively treat their patients. One efficient, low-cost avenue for such information is online collections, but certain regions lack the information and communication technologies (ICT) necessary for widespread and reliable access to online resources. The characteristics of existing ICT infrastructure in many developing countries are not well understood. This research synthesis focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), an area with low levels of ICT infrastructure. It presents a synthesis of statistical analyses and a review across disciplines of information published on the state of ICT and health information access in SSA. An overview of the existing knowledge allowed us to identify the salient features of this particular ICT environment, and informed the development of a survey for SSA healthcare professionals. The synthesis and preliminary results from our survey suggest that Internet connectivity remains highly unreliable in Sub-Saharan Africa and that mobile devices provide the most reliable technology for health care providers to carry out their work.