Introductory slides for the DOWNSCALE2016 workshop: https://worldwidesemanticweb.org/events/downscale2016/

1. DOWNSCALE2016
Victor de Boer, Anna Bon

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Interfaces: Mobile phones and
Community radios

6. Relevancy:
Bottom-up approaches to ICT4D (Living labs)

7. Infrastructure

10. Kasadaka
a rapid prototyping platform for the rural poor
Awa Gossa Lô, Stefan Schlobach & Victor de Boer
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

11. www.worldwidesemanticweb.org

13. Downscale 2012, 2013, 2014
Linked Data for Development tutorials

14. DOWNSCALE2016 @ ICT4S
• Low-powered hardware
• Low-cost hardware
• Available
• Replaceable
• Small footprint
• Distributed solutions

15. ICT4D Course @
•MSc Computer Science course
Core Computer Science: CS4D
•Make students aware of
importance of context
•Hands-on experience
•Train CS researchers in ICT4D

16. http://worldwidesemanticweb.org/downscale2016