Feasibility, architecture and cost considerations of using TVWS for rural Internet access in 5G

M Khalil, J Qadir, O Onireti, MA Imran… - 2017 20th Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cellular technology is mostly an urban technology that has been unable to serve rural
areas well. This is because the traditional cellular models are not economical for areas with …

Rural uncommoning: Women, community networks and the enclosure of life

NJ Bidwell - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Shared use of small-scale natural commons is vital to the livelihoods of billions of rural
inhabitants, particularly women, and advocates propose that local telecommunications …

iNethi Community Network: A first look at local and Internet traffic usage

A Phokeer, S Hadzic, E Nitschke, A Van Zyl… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
This poster presents iNethi, a community wireless network deployed in a peri-urban
township of Cape Town, South Africa. Initial usage clearly indicates a demand for Internet …

Networked Micro-services: Empowering Local Micro-enterprises in a South African Township Through Community Wireless Networks

N Iitumba, H Mthoko, K White, M Madzena… - … on Innovations and …, 2023 - Springer
Internet and cloud resources are a growing resource for micro-enterprises. However, small
businesses in low-income communities struggle to use these resources due to the cost of …

A Dynamic Perspective of Internet Service Provider Adoption of Emergent Network Technology: A Case Study of Tribal Digital Village

R Canevez, C Maitland… - Journal of …, 2020 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Technological mediation describes the process where internet service providers (ISPs)
translate telecommunications network innovations from the “technological frontier” to their …

Reconsidering network management interfaces for communities

N Iitumba, S Shinde, D Ortega, N Bagalkot… - Proceedings of the 4th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Community-owned mesh wireless networks enable cost-effective sharing of networked
resources, expanding internet and local service accessibility through low-cost WiFi …

Bootstrapping the Development of Services for Wireless Community Networks

K White, D Johnson, M Densmore, H Mthoko - 2021 - pubs.cs.uct.ac.za
Affordable Internet access has been critical for continued remote education and work-from-
home environments during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, localized services made …

Channel parameter tuning in a hybrid Wi-Fi-Dynamic Spectrum Access Wireless Mesh Network

N Zlobinsky - 2023 - open.uct.ac.za
Abstract This work addresses Channel Assignment in a multi-radio multi-channel (MRMC)
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) using both Wi-Fi and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) …

Community-based co-design of a crowdsourcing task management application for safeguarding indigenous knowledge

C Stanley - 2020 - open.uct.ac.za
Teaching indigenous knowledge (IK) to African youth has become more complicated due to
a variety of reasons such as urban migration, loss of interest in it, the dominance of scientific …

Free doesn't mean access to the Wi-Fi facility: The south African experience

N Tungela, T Iyamu - Education and Information Technologies, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The South African government strives to increase citizens' participation in
economic, political, social and trade activities through online connectivity, by providing free …