Firdhous, Mohamed and Ghazali, Osman and Hassan, Suhaidi (2013) Cloud computing for rural ICT development: Opportunities and challenges. In: International Conference on Computing, Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICCEEE), 26-28 Aug. 2013, Khartoum.

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Abstract

According to the United Nations, almost 50 percent of world population and more than 70 percent of that of developing countries are living in rural areas. Majority of this population live in poverty especially in North and sub Saharan Africa. Rural population face unique problems compared to their urban counterparts in terms of access to technologies, infrastructure, markets and social services.Experts have identified ICT as the tool for overcoming the inefficiencies in traditional methods for the empowerment of rural masses.In this paper, we study how cloud computing can be used to meet the ICT requirements for rural development in terms of opportunities and challenges of implementing and using the new technology.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-6231-3
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Cloud computing, rural ICT development, cloud models, community cloud.
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:	School of Computing
Depositing User:	Dr. Osman Ghazali
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2016 07:56
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2016 07:56
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/19034

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