skip to main content
10.1145/1367497.1367687acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesthewebconfConference Proceedingsconference-collections
poster

VoiKiosk: increasing reachability of kiosks in developing regions

Published: 21 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

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.

References

[1]
U. Desai, N. Balachander, P. Dinakar, and V. Madhavan. VOBA- A Voice Based Newsgroup, volume 3285, pages 271--278. Springer Berlin, 2004.
[2]
A. Kumar, N. Rajput, D. Chakraborty, S. Agarwal, and A. A. Nanavati. Voiserv: Creation and delivery of converged services through voice for emerging economies. In WoWMoM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Finland, June 2007.
[3]
R. Kumar. E-Choupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh. Information Technologies and International Development, 1:45--73, 2004.
[4]
R. Kumar. e-Governance: Drishtee's Soochana Kendras in Haryana, India. In Proc. South Asia Conference: Trends in Computing for Human Development in India, 2005.
[5]
T. S. Parikh and E. D. Lazowska. Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW), May 2006.

Cited By

View all
  • (2013)Exploring suitable interfaces for agriculture based smartphone apps in IndiaProceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction10.1145/2525194.2525293(280-285)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2013
  • (2013)Voice-based web access in rural AfricaProceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference10.1145/2464464.2464496(122-131)Online publication date: 2-May-2013
  • (2012)Labor grid: For effective labor migration2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology10.1109/EAIT.2012.6407902(227-230)Online publication date: Nov-2012
  • Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
WWW '08: Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
April 2008
1326 pages
ISBN:9781605580852
DOI:10.1145/1367497
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

In-Cooperation

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 21 April 2008

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Author Tags

  1. developing regions
  2. kiosks
  3. voigen

Qualifiers

  • Poster

Conference

WWW '08
Sponsor:

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,899 of 8,196 submissions, 23%

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • Downloads (Last 12 months)2
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 20 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all
  • (2013)Exploring suitable interfaces for agriculture based smartphone apps in IndiaProceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction10.1145/2525194.2525293(280-285)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2013
  • (2013)Voice-based web access in rural AfricaProceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference10.1145/2464464.2464496(122-131)Online publication date: 2-May-2013
  • (2012)Labor grid: For effective labor migration2012 Third International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology10.1109/EAIT.2012.6407902(227-230)Online publication date: Nov-2012
  • (2011)mango: Low-cost, scalable delivery of rich content on mobile devicesBell Labs Technical Journal10.1002/bltj.2047215:4(63-78)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2011
  • (2010)RobitProceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/2369220.2369257(1-10)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2010
  • (2010)The spoken web application frameworkProceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)10.1145/1805986.1805990(1-10)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2010
  • (2009)Freedom foneProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development10.5555/1812530.1812584(483-483)Online publication date: 17-Apr-2009
  • (2009)HIV health information access using spoken dialogue systemsProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development10.5555/1812530.1812541(95-107)Online publication date: 17-Apr-2009
  • (2009)Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areasProceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development10.5555/1812530.1812537(56-65)Online publication date: 17-Apr-2009
  • (2009)Initial fieldwork for LWAZIProceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages10.5555/1564508.1564520(59-65)Online publication date: 31-Mar-2009
  • Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Figures

Tables

Media

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media