Cell phone technology for the developing world
August 28, 2009 | Length: 00:01:46
How does a woman in a remote village in India get the information she needs for her ailing child? Through the use of cheap and increasingly accessible mobile phones and voice based applications like those created by Tapan Parikh, Assistant Professor at the School of Information at University of California, Berkeley. Parikh's voice based service allows anyone with a cell phone to take an image or record a question and get help from a professional anywhere within the country.
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>> My name is Tavin Ferick assumed spelling. I'm an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley
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>> I work with communities all over the world including inaudible Africa in Latin America and in India and we develop systems that allow them to connect to institutional sources of knowledge like health resources, agricultural knowledge, economic opportunities, government services and we also provide tools for them to better document their lives, their needs and to communicate with one another. A lot of these focus on the use of mobile phones because they are a cheap, increasingly accessible technology for all kinds of populations in the developing world. So through this service they can call a phone based application, they can register questions, these questions are reviewed by experts and the experts are able to respond and all of this is accessible through a voice based medium. The equivalent system in the developed world would use text as a medium for people to register questions and receive answers like we see on mailing lists or discussion boards on the internet. Because a lot of the populations that we work with aren't literate or are more used to oral communication, voice provides are fundamentally more accessible and comfortable way for them to interact with information and knowledge.
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>> I hope that through these projects communities that I'm working with will be able to better access the knowledge and services that they require to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
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