Slides for the 4minute lightning talk at ISWC2014: Knowledge sharing for Development

1. Knowledge Sharing for the Developing World
Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach and Chris J van Aart

3. www.worldwidesemanticweb.org

4. 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

5. 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

6. With the mainstream
Dev. countries can leapfrog directly into the
information age,
jumping many phases of immature technologies
Linked Data is mainstream computer science research.
Test hypotheses in domains/environments
Img: flickr/n3v3rv0id

7. Interfaces: Mobile phones and
Community radios

9. 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!

10. Rapid-prototyping
knowledge sharing platform
(aka “The Box”)

11. 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

12. ?
http://tinyurl.com/cs4dworkshop

13. LET’s Build A
WORLDWIDE Semantic Web
http://worldwidesemanticweb.org
http://tinyurl.com/cs4dworkshop
v.deboer@vu.nl