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Spoken Web papers

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Key papers from the World Wide Telecom Web, also called Spoken Web or Telecom Web, an initiative to create an alternate web for the under-privileged. The World Wide Telecom Web was conceived by Arun Kumar at IBM India Research Lab in 2004.

  WWTW: The World Wide Telecom Web
IBM India Research Laboratory

Authors: Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sheetal K Agarwal, Amit A Nanavati
August 2007 (PDF 180KB)
     
  Organizing the unorganized – Employing IT to empower the under-privileged
IBM India Research Laboratory

Authors: Arun Kumar, Nitendra Rajput, Sheetal Agarwal, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Amit Anil Nanavati
April 2008 (PDF 380KB)
     
  Making a case for the spoken web as the mobile web for developing countries (W3C Maputo)
IBM India Research Laboratory

Authors: Sheetal K Agarwal, Anupam Jain, Arun Kumar, Priyanka Manwani, Amit A Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput, Aaditeshwar Seth
April 2009 (PDF 2.4MB)
     
  FOLKSOMAPS - Towards community driven intelligent maps for developing regions
IBM India Research Laboratory

Authors: Arun Kumar, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Himanshu Chauhan, Sheetal K Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput
April 2009 (PDF 500KB)
     
  Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areas
IBM India Research Laboratory

Authors: Sheetal K Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Amit Anil Nanavati, Nitendra Rajput
April 2009 (PDF 560KB)
     


 
 
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