Social services on wheels: A sustainable model to improve access in unreached communities

Kamau, Jecinta; Reberio-Hargrave, Andrew; Saito, Hiroaki; Abdullah, Emran; Okajima, Hiroshi; Ahmed, Ashir

doi:10.1109/istafrica.2014.6880624

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“…A 10 seated Toyota Hiace vehicle is shared to carry ICT based 4 major services such as: 1) Remote healthcare; 2) Female friendly transport using car sharing model; 3) E-learning; and 4) Last mile delivery service of online purchase. This research project is known as Social Services on Wheels (SSW) [15]. Under SSW project there were two experimental sites in two districts in Bangladesh.…”

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Factors Associated to Online Shopping at the BoP Community in Rural Bangladesh

Hossein¹,

Yokota²,

Nishikitani³

et al. 2017

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Abstract-Online shopping is getting popular even in the rural areas of developing countries. However, few research has been conducted to identify the factors associated to online shopping by the poor villagers. Whereas people living at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) has an aggregate purchase power which is a huge market and online shopping has the potentiality in reducing BoP penalty by removing unnecessary middlemen from the supply chain. In this research, we have conducted a field survey on 600 households in the western part of rural Bangladesh to find out current status of online shopping use by the BoP people and the demographic and behavioral factors associated with online shopping. Chi-square test of association and multi-variate logistic regression test have been performed to analyze data. Result shows that cell phone use, computer use, social media use, and mobile money transfer use have significant relationship in online shopping use at the BoP community.

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Section: Research Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Associated to Online Shopping at the BoP Community in Rural Bangladesh

Hossein¹,

Yokota²,

Nishikitani³

et al. 2017

ijacsa

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“…The Social Service on Wheels (SSW) concept was designed by Kyushu University in collaboration with Grameen Communications to bring ICT based services to unreached communities [14]. The concept was derived against a general need for a community to own a car.…”

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“…6, No. 8, August 2016 E. SSW Sustainability Methods Business sustainability or rather the ability to be replicated in different communities with similar or closely related conditions (developing countries) is the overall success of the SSW model [14]. The SSW system faces the same problems as any business in a rural village: costs of running and maintaining the business is greater than the revenue gained from low-income clients.…”

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Healthcare Service on Wheels for Unreached Communities

Osugi¹,

Kamau²,

Rebeiro‐Hargrave³

et al. 2016

IJSSH

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Abstract-This article introduces an ICT based transport system called Social Services on Wheels (SSW) that provides multiple social services especially healthcare delivery to the unreached communities. A community car brings healthcare devices, PC and team members (Village entrepreneur, healthcare worker, IT assistant) to pre-allocated service points within villages. The measuring devices and applications are supported by a back-end data operations office using Internet. The villager walks to the nearest service point and interfaces with the healthcare and information systems. Social Service on Wheels has been tested in two rural villages in Bangladesh during October 2013 to February 2014. The results showed that 4,496 long distance trips were reduced because the villagers were satisfactorily served without leaving theirvillage. The villagers tended to associate the delivery of six social services with the Toyota community car rather than the SSW teams who performed the tests or helped with IT issues. SSW empowered the community by hiring locally and training the SSW teams. The sustainability of SSW project is a challenging area and is still being investigated.Index Terms-Mobility, access to social service, resource sharing, village centered transportation. I. INTRODUCTION1 billion of the world population are unreached in terms of access to quality healthcare services [1]. Globally, approximately one half of the population lives in rural areas, but less than 38% of the nurses and less than 25% of the physicians work there [2]. On the other hand, prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic kidney diseases, and diabetes mellitus, has been increasing rapidly worldwide. The World Health Organization reported that NCDs accounted for 63% (36 million) of the 57 million global deaths in 2008 and approximately 80% of all NCD-related deaths occurred in low-and middle-income countries [3]. In these developing countries, 29% of NCD-related deaths occurred in the working-age group (in people aged <60 years). This rate is Manuscript received January 30, 2015; revised April 28, 2015 higher than that for high-income countries (13%) and contributes to declining labor productivity in developing countries. The total number of annual NCD-related deaths is estimated to reach 55 million by 2030 [4]. NCDs are no longer just a problem for high-income countries, but a problem that affects all countries.Furthermore, utilization of healthcare services in rural areas is much lower as compared to urban areas. While there are a number of possible explanations for these differences, such as differences in the number of medical practitioners available, the longer travel distances and fewer transportation options available in rural areas are significant factors [5]. The environment of rural communities in developing countries is characterized by an absence of public transport, poor access to welfare services and informal trade markets [6]. In addition, there are few local sustainable business m...

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“…In previous works, we introduced a multiservice vehicle to provide access to social services in rural Bangladesh [10]. We called this concept Social Services on Wheels.…”

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“…This solution offers a smart scheduled commute service to school children and office workers with an ample in-car environment that they can comfortably work in even through traffic rather than wasting hours on the road. The vehicle also delivers social services like healthcare and goods delivery to the city residential areas to maximise use of the vehicle as a resource [10]. In the middle of the day when the traffic is low, the vehicle offers on demand transport services to provide quality transport at an affordable price and to minimize the vehicle idle time.…”

Section: Hybrid Multiservice Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid multiservice demand responsive mobility service for developing countries

Kamau

Rebeiro‐Hargrave

Hossain

et al. 2015

eChallenges E-2015 Conference

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This paper presents the concept of a hybrid multiservice demand-responsive mobility service, to improve productivity and provide safer, reliable transportation in developing countries. The multiservice vehicle is realized by a Mobility Service Provider (MSP). The MSP manages passengers' requests by scheduling ride sharing. Service requests are also met by scheduling delivery of healthcare, internet access and goods delivery close to the customer. A user demand-responsive scheduling system ensures optimum use of a vehicle and delivery of services. A model MSP called Social Services on Wheels introduces vehicles to a community in Dhaka, Bangladesh whose operations are based on requests from the customers. We expect this pilot will provide a comfortable scheduled transit solution that minimizes vehicle idle time to maximize use of the vehicle.

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Social services on wheels: A sustainable model to improve access in unreached communities

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Factors Associated to Online Shopping at the BoP Community in Rural Bangladesh

Factors Associated to Online Shopping at the BoP Community in Rural Bangladesh

Healthcare Service on Wheels for Unreached Communities

Hybrid multiservice demand responsive mobility service for developing countries

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