{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2580969237","doi":null,"title":"Developing locally relevant applications for rural South Africa : a telemedicine example","display_name":"Developing locally relevant applications for rural South Africa : a telemedicine example","publication_year":2005,"publication_date":"2005-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2580969237","mag":"2580969237"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:localhost:11427/6385","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6385","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402129","display_name":"Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I157614274","host_organization_name":"University of Cape Town","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157614274"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Master Thesis"},"volume":null,"type":"dissertation","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5065790866","display_name":"Marshini Chetty","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0804-6110","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0804-6110"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Marshini Chetty","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0804-6110","affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5065790866"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":7,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13194","display_name":"ICT in Developing Communities","score":1.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13194","display_name":"ICT in Developing Communities","score":1.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10430","display_name":"Software Engineering Techniques and Practices","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10912","display_name":"Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation","score":0.0,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2739","display_name":"Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/telemedicine","display_name":"telemedicine","score":0.859000027179718},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rural-health","display_name":"rural health","score":0.6169999837875366}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779891985","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46994","display_name":"Telemedicine","level":3,"score":0.5992549657821655},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C173655357","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244752","display_name":"Digital divide","level":3,"score":0.5418193936347961},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.4983491897583008},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C67363961","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5268834","display_name":"Information and Communications Technology","level":2,"score":0.49156150221824646},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C151319957","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752739","display_name":"Asynchronous communication","level":2,"score":0.4640786647796631},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.45506617426872253},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C129047720","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q175185","display_name":"Rural area","level":2,"score":0.4495833218097687},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136764020","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466","display_name":"World Wide Web","level":1,"score":0.25118696689605713},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50522688","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189833","display_name":"Economic growth","level":1,"score":0.1845102608203888},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C160735492","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31207","display_name":"Health care","level":2,"score":0.15520232915878296},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.15108966827392578},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:localhost:11427/6385","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6385","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402129","display_name":"Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I157614274","host_organization_name":"University of Cape Town","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I157614274"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Master Thesis"},{"id":"mag:2580969237","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/6385/1/thesis_sci_2005_chetty_m.pdf","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.7207000255584717,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/9","display_name":"Industry, innovation and infrastructure"},{"score":0.4074000120162964,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10","display_name":"Reduced inequalities"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":61,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W33843107","https://openalex.org/W39712307","https://openalex.org/W94532446","https://openalex.org/W180679819","https://openalex.org/W1504774399","https://openalex.org/W1515239165","https://openalex.org/W1524560932","https://openalex.org/W1527423018","https://openalex.org/W1568674346","https://openalex.org/W1667885665","https://openalex.org/W1765266268","https://openalex.org/W1800348754","https://openalex.org/W1965911373","https://openalex.org/W1972935414","https://openalex.org/W1993666760","https://openalex.org/W1998522059","https://openalex.org/W2004938759","https://openalex.org/W2006468167","https://openalex.org/W2010016238","https://openalex.org/W2012009776","https://openalex.org/W2018977143","https://openalex.org/W2019746085","https://openalex.org/W2019895905","https://openalex.org/W2020731175","https://openalex.org/W2025183119","https://openalex.org/W2033662853","https://openalex.org/W2033901093","https://openalex.org/W2036498929","https://openalex.org/W2039122665","https://openalex.org/W2044265377","https://openalex.org/W2045113867","https://openalex.org/W2048797265","https://openalex.org/W2055306107","https://openalex.org/W2057977051","https://openalex.org/W2058303412","https://openalex.org/W2063689189","https://openalex.org/W2068631113","https://openalex.org/W2078500988","https://openalex.org/W2084805781","https://openalex.org/W2085273475","https://openalex.org/W2090881953","https://openalex.org/W2093319546","https://openalex.org/W2096076421","https://openalex.org/W2112662827","https://openalex.org/W2114731079","https://openalex.org/W2116672671","https://openalex.org/W2119830340","https://openalex.org/W2130847693","https://openalex.org/W2130948708","https://openalex.org/W2131385983","https://openalex.org/W2133671968","https://openalex.org/W2139208951","https://openalex.org/W2141657980","https://openalex.org/W2144326919","https://openalex.org/W2147550193","https://openalex.org/W2150764303","https://openalex.org/W2162156387","https://openalex.org/W2166801007","https://openalex.org/W2485156972","https://openalex.org/W2912939914","https://openalex.org/W4231262947"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1667885665","https://openalex.org/W142179889","https://openalex.org/W7098615267","https://openalex.org/W2401405094","https://openalex.org/W3083705123","https://openalex.org/W2259525850","https://openalex.org/W2252421442","https://openalex.org/W2277489099","https://openalex.org/W7097835507","https://openalex.org/W2574873501"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Within":[0],"developing":[1,42],"countries,":[2],"there":[3],"is":[4,161],"a":[5,82,90,162,170,181,187,214,225],"digital":[6],"divide":[7],"between":[8,180],"rural":[9,45,78,91,171],"and":[10,26,46,58,125,177,186,216],"urban":[11],"areas.":[12,33,62,110],"In":[13],"order":[14],"to":[15,21,31,66,72,154],"overcome":[16],"this":[17],"division,":[18],"we":[19],"need":[20],"provide":[22],"locally":[23],"relevant":[24],"Information":[25],"Communication":[27],"Technology":[28],"(ICT)":[29],"services":[30],"these":[32],"Traditional":[34],"software":[35,43,75,87,106,118],"development":[36,107],"methodologies":[37],"are":[38],"not":[39],"suitable":[40,74],"for":[41,44,77,85,89,108,116,165,169,175,219,230],"underserviced":[47,109],"areas":[48],"because":[49],"they":[50],"cannot":[51],"take":[52],"into":[53],"account":[54],"the":[55,68,96,141,190,198],"unique":[56],"requirements":[57],"complexities":[59],"of":[60,146,202],"such":[61],"We":[63,80,93],"set":[64],"out":[65],"find":[67],"most":[69],"appropriate":[70],"way":[71],"engineer":[73],"applications":[76,88,119],"communities.":[79],"developed":[81],"methodological":[83],"framework":[84,115,148],"creating":[86,117],"community.":[92,172],"critically":[94],"examined":[95],"restrictions":[97],"that":[98],"current":[99],"South":[100,203],"African":[101],"telecommunications":[102],"legislation":[103],"places":[104],"on":[105],"Our":[111],"socially":[112],"aware":[113],"computing":[114],"uses":[120],"principles":[121],"from":[122],"Action":[123],"Research":[124],"Participatory":[126],"Design":[127],"as":[128,130],"well":[129],"best":[131],"practice":[132],"guidelines;":[133],"it":[134,153],"helps":[135],"us":[136],"address":[137],"all":[138],"issues":[139],"affecting":[140],"project":[142],"success.":[143],"The":[144],"validity":[145],"our":[147],"was":[149,222],"demonstrated":[150],"by":[151],"using":[152],"create":[155],"Multi-modal":[156],"Telemedicine":[157],"Intercommunicator":[158],"(MuTI).":[159],"MuTI":[160,221],"prototype":[163],"system":[164],"remote":[166],"health":[167],"consultation":[168],"It":[173,205],"allowed":[174],"synchronous":[176],"asynchronous":[178],"communications":[179],"clinic":[182],"in":[183,189,197],"one":[184],"village":[185],"hospital":[188],"neighbouring":[191],"village,":[192],"nearly":[193],"20":[194],"kilometers":[195],"away,":[196],"Eastern":[199],"Cape":[200],"province":[201],"Africa.":[204],"used":[206],"Voice":[207],"over":[208,224],"Internet":[209],"Protocol":[210],"(VoIP)":[211],"combined":[212],"with":[213],"store":[215],"forward":[217],"approach":[218],"communication.":[220],"tested":[223],"Wireless":[226],"Fidelity":[227],"(WiFi)":[228],"network":[229],"several":[231],"months.":[232]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":4}],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2017-02-03T00:00:00"}