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Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges

According to the United Nations, almost 50 percent of world population and more than 70 percent of that of developing countries are living in rural areas. Majority of this population live in poverty especially in North and sub Saharan Africa. Rural population face unique problems compared to their u...

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Main Authors: Firdhous, Mohamed, Ghazali, Osman, Hassan, Suhaidi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/19034/1/ICCEEE%202013%20680-685.pdf
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http://doi.org/10.1109/ICCEEE.2013.6634022
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spelling my.uum.repo.190342016-11-09T07:56:49Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/19034/ Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges Firdhous, Mohamed Ghazali, Osman Hassan, Suhaidi QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science According to the United Nations, almost 50 percent of world population and more than 70 percent of that of developing countries are living in rural areas. Majority of this population live in poverty especially in North and sub Saharan Africa. Rural population face unique problems compared to their urban counterparts in terms of access to technologies, infrastructure, markets and social services.Experts have identified ICT as the tool for overcoming the inefficiencies in traditional methods for the empowerment of rural masses.In this paper, we study how cloud computing can be used to meet the ICT requirements for rural development in terms of opportunities and challenges of implementing and using the new technology. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/19034/1/ICCEEE%202013%20680-685.pdf Firdhous, Mohamed and Ghazali, Osman and Hassan, Suhaidi (2013) Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges. In: International Conference on Computing, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICCEEE), 26-28 Aug. 2013, Khartoum. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICCEEE.2013.6634022 doi:10.1109/ICCEEE.2013.6634022
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Firdhous, Mohamed
Ghazali, Osman
Hassan, Suhaidi
Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges
description According to the United Nations, almost 50 percent of world population and more than 70 percent of that of developing countries are living in rural areas. Majority of this population live in poverty especially in North and sub Saharan Africa. Rural population face unique problems compared to their urban counterparts in terms of access to technologies, infrastructure, markets and social services.Experts have identified ICT as the tool for overcoming the inefficiencies in traditional methods for the empowerment of rural masses.In this paper, we study how cloud computing can be used to meet the ICT requirements for rural development in terms of opportunities and challenges of implementing and using the new technology.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Firdhous, Mohamed
Ghazali, Osman
Hassan, Suhaidi
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Ghazali, Osman
Hassan, Suhaidi
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title Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges
title_short Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges
title_full Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges
title_fullStr Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges
title_full_unstemmed Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges
title_sort cloud computing for rural ict development: opportunities and challenges
publishDate 2013
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/19034/1/ICCEEE%202013%20680-685.pdf
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