Title :
Design, Development and Deployment of a Mobile E-Commerce Application for Rural South Africa -A Case Study
Author :
Chipangura, B. ; Terzoli, A. ; Muyingi, H. ; Krishna Rao, G.S.V.R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fort Hare Univ., Alice
Abstract :
Fort Hare University is located in the rural town of Alice in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The university runs several poverty alleviation projects in those villages to help the people. One of the prospering projects is the Lingelihle cooperative which specializes on making handmade artifacts for sale. The computer science department built an e-commerce Web site for marketing the products to the world. In this project we report on the mobile e-commerce application that we designed for this cooperative
Keywords :
Web design; electronic commerce; mobile computing; Alice; Eastern Cape province; Fort Hare University; Lingelihle cooperative; computer science department; e-commerce Web site; handmade artifacts; mobile e-commerce application; poverty alleviation projects; rural South Africa; Africa; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer networks; Computer science; Mobile computing; Operating systems; Pervasive computing; Usability; User interfaces; Mobile computing; database; usability; wireless network;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Technology, 2006. ICACT 2006. The 8th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Phoenix Park
Print_ISBN :
89-5519-129-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICACT.2006.206264
