Content and the Web for African development

Adam, Lishan

doi:10.1177/016555159702300108

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“…This point has been stressed by a number of authors since the introduction of ICTs, more specifically the internet, in Africa (e.g., Adam, 1997;Adam & Wood, 1999). In order to gauge the impact of ICTs, in general, and e-Government services, in particular, baseline data and an understanding of the current status of their adoption and use are crucial.…”

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An analysis of African e-Government service websites

Rorissa

Demissie

2010

Government Information Quarterly

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In most African countries, compared to any other part of the world, the use of information and communication technologies such as those necessary to provide e-Government services is minimal. The continent was once labeled a "technological desert." The contributing factors, among others, are lack of infrastructure, low literacy rates, low economic development, and a variety of cultural factors. Despite these obstacles, most African countries have made noticeable progress during the last couple of decades. Almost all African governments now have some presence on the Web, including fully fledged e-Government web portals, albeit in small numbers. However, the current status of e-Government services in African countries is not well documented in detail. We present results of a comprehensive analysis of 582 e-Government service websites with respect to the type of websites, the services and features available, as well as the level of development of e-Government services. We also compute e-Government indexes, produce e-Government rankings, and compare our rankings to previous ones. A clear picture that emerges from our analysis and results is that although progress has been made, there is a long way to go, to bridge not only the North-South divide when it comes to e-Government services but also among the various sub-regions. In addition, recommendations for future researchers regarding e-Government services in Africa are made.Published by Elsevier Inc.

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An analysis of African e-Government service websites

Rorissa

Demissie

2010

Government Information Quarterly

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“…Historically, many low-resourced languages had low demand from stakeholders for content creation and translation (Wa Thiong'o, 1992). Due to missing keyboards or limited access to technology, content creators were not empowered to write digital content (Adam, 1997;van Esch et al, 2019). This is a chicken-oregg problem, where existing digital content in a language would attract more stakeholders, which would incentivize content creators (Kaffee et al, 2018).…”

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Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Nekoto¹,

Marivate²,

Matsila³

et al. 2020

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020

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Research in NLP lacks geographic diversity, and the question of how NLP can be scaled to low-resourced languages has not yet been adequately solved. "Lowresourced"-ness is a complex problem going beyond data availability and reflects systemic problems in society. * ∀ to represent the whole Masakhane community.As MT researchers cannot solve the problem of low-resourcedness alone, we propose participatory research as a means to involve all necessary agents required in the MT development process. We demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of participatory research with a case study on MT for African languages. Its implementation leads to a collection of novel translation datasets, MT benchmarks for over 30 languages, with human evaluations for a third of them, and enables participants without formal training to make a unique scientific contribution. Benchmarks, models, data, code, and evaluation results are released at https://github. com/masakhane-io/masakhane-mt.

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“…Adams (1995) has argues that electric information network has opened up a new vista to African researchers, academics and students as well technocrats. Adams (1997) and Fall (1996) …”

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Challenges of Electronic Information Management in Nigerian University Libraries

Nwosu¹

2013

IOSR-JHSS

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Content and the Web for African development

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

An analysis of African e-Government service websites

An analysis of African e-Government service websites

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Challenges of Electronic Information Management in Nigerian University Libraries

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