Knowledge Sharing for the Developing World

Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach and Chris J van Aart

www.worldwidesemanticweb.org

Need for information sharing in rural developing areas

• Agricultural, Health, Education, Market prices…

Sharing (heterogeneous) knowledge is essential

• LD is well-suited because of:– Language-agnostic– Interface-agnostic– De-centralised authoring

• Slicing

– Re-usability• Local• Global

Based on Sbc4d.com

SEMANTIC WEB

Information sharing should be made

1. usable on small, affordable, hardware deployed in various connectivity contexts;

2. accessible to individuals with varied cultural backgrounds / literacy levels;

3. relevant and directly useful to the target public they aim to empower.

Infrastructure

Interface Relevancy

With the mainstream

Dev. countries can leapfrog directly into the information age,

jumping many phases of immature technologies

Img: flickr/n3v3rv0id

Linked Data is mainstream computer science research.

Test hypotheses in domains/environments

Interfaces: Mobile phones and Community radios

Infrastructure: Low-powered hardware and Mesh networking

ENTITY REGISTRY SYSTEM (ERS)• Fully decentralised Linked Data publication platform• Works under any kind of connectivity context• Tracks back individual edits back to their authors• Simple and versatile• Open Source https://github.com/ers-devs• Low resource demanding

... and open for contributions so don't hesitate to fork it!

Rapid-prototyping knowledge sharing platform

(aka “The Box”)

ICT4D Course @

•MSc Computer Science course –this year 3rd time–Core Computer Science: CS4D

•Make students aware of importance of context•Hands-on experience•Train CS researchers in ICT4D

http://tinyurl.com/cs4dworkshop

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LET’s Build A WORLDWIDE Semantic Web

http://worldwidesemanticweb.org

v.deboer@vu.nl

http://tinyurl.com/cs4dworkshop