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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437566403321

Titolo

e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries : 4th International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2012, Yaounde, Cameroon, November 12-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Karl Jonas, Idris A. Rai, Maurice Tchuente

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-41178-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 332 p. 100 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, , 1867-822X ; ; 119

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Computers and civilization

Computer networks

Application software

Computers and Society

Computer Communication Networks

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Testbed for Rural Area Networking -- SNS4D: An OnLine Social Network System for Developing Countries -- RuKaCS: A Community Services and Proximity Networks Project -- Achievable Capacity Design for Irregular and Clustered High Performance Mesh Networks -- VHF Spectrum Monitoring Using Meraka Cognitive Radio Platform -- Open BTS, a GSM Experiment in Rural Zambia -- Performance Evaluation of RSSI Based Distance Measurement for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks -- SolarMesh - Deployment Aspects for Wireless Mesh Networks -- Emerginov: An Open PHP PaaS to Stimulate and Animate Local Co-innovation -- Introducing Nika NOW: A Mobile Platform for Hyperlocal Media in South Africa -- Analysis and Design of Mobile Payment Platform in African Context -- A Mobile Commerce Solution for Sub-Saharan Countries Such as Cameroon.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference



proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2012, held in Yaounde, Cameroon, in November 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of information and communication infrastructures and are grouped in topical sections on: e-Infrastructure, e-Services, e-Society, e-Health, and e-Security.