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Opportunistic data services in least developed countries: benefits, challenges and feasibility issues

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Nicolas Anciaux,

Nathalie Mitton,

Philippe PucheralAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMOD Record, Volume 43, Issue 1

Pages 52 - 63

https://doi.org/10.1145/2627692.2627704

Published: 13 May 2014 Publication History

Abstract

According to many studies, IT should become a key facilitator in establishing primary education, reducing mortality or supporting commercial initiatives in Least Developed Countries. The main barrier to the development of IT services in these regions is not only the lack of communication facilities, but also the lack of consistent information systems, security procedures, economic and legal support, as well as political commitment. In this paper, we propose the vision of an infrastructure-less data platform well suited for the development of innovative IT services in Least Developed Countries. We propose a participatory approach, called Folk-IS, where each individual implements a small subset of a complete information system thanks to highly secure, portable and low-cost personal devices as well as opportunistic networking, without the need for any form of infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on the exploitation and feasibility analysis of the Folk-IS vision. We also review the technical challenges that are specific to this approach.

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cover image ACM SIGMOD Record

ACM SIGMOD Record Volume 43, Issue 1

March 2014

71 pages

ISSN:0163-5808

DOI:10.1145/2627692

Editors:
Ioana Manolescu
INRIA Saclay
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Denilson Barbosa
University of Alberta
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Pablo Barceló
Universidad de Chile
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Vanessa Braganholo
Universidade Federal Fluminense
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Marco Brambilla
Politecnico di Milano
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Chee Yong Chan
National University of Singapore
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Rada Chirkova
North Carolina State University
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Anish Das Sarma
Google Research
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Glenn Paulley
Conestoga College
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Alkis Simitsis
HP Labs
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Nesime Tatbul
ETH Zurich
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Marianne Winslett
University of Illinois

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Shi FQin ZMcCann J(2017)OPPay: Design and Implementation of a Payment System for Opportunistic Data Services2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)10.1109/ICDCS.2017.21(1618-1628)Online publication date: Jun-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2017.21
Anciaux NGuillotton SBouganim LIlarri SKamgang ANgami ANouedoui CPucheral PTchuente M(2016)Managing Personal Health Records in an Infrastructure-Weak Environmente-Infrastructure and e-Services10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_18(178-191)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43696-8_18

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