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GAIUS: a new mobile content creation and diffusion ecosystem for emerging regions

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Arjuna Sathiaseelan,

Lakshminarayanan SubramanianAuthors Info & Claims

ICTD '19: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

Article No.: 34, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3287098.3287130

Published: 04 January 2019 Publication History

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Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in emerging regions, the growth of web page complexity combined with inadequate content delivery mechanisms and lack of relevant local content make the web experience poor for users in these regions. In this paper, we propose GAIUS, a content ecosystem that enables the efficient creation and dissemination of locally relevant web content. GAIUS aims at creating a community content exchange that enables users to easily create and consume relevant web content with the help of a mobile application. Based on an early deployment of GAIUS in various regions, we show that our ecosystem enables localized content creation and diffusion efficiently.

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GAIUS: a new mobile content creation and diffusion ecosystem for emerging regions
1. Networks
  1. Network services
    1. Location based services
  2. Network types
    1. Overlay and other logical network structures
      1. World Wide Web (network structure)
    2. Public Internet

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ICTD '19: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

January 2019

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DOI:10.1145/3287098

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White KJohnson DHadzic SDensmore M(2023)Community Networks powered by Community CurrenciesProceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3588001.3609372(120-123)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2023
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Phokeer AHadzic SNitschke EVan Zyl AJohnson DDensmore MChavula J(2020)iNethi Community NetworkProceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3378393.3402289(342-344)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2020
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Sathiaseelan AChatterjee ALal MZaki YSubramanian L(2020)A hyperlocal mobile web for the next 3 billion usersProceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking10.1145/3372224.3417316(1-3)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2020
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