This paper contrasts the user-centred design with the gamification design framework and proposes a model of usability benefits adapted to gamification. The model is useful for selling the usability activities to management and strategists when developing gamified solutions, services, and software. In this paper, we focus on identifying the benefits since they can be used to legitimise the usabi...

Many rural regions in developing and developed countries with low user densities do not have good connectivity solutions. To date, networking research has largely focused on urban areas of the industrialized world. In this paper, we make the case for research on new appropriate wireless technologies that can provide low-cost, rapidly deployable connectivity solutions for low user-density region...

The software development community is once again at an interesting inflection point. Distributed and interconnected systems have become the norm for new development efforts to the extent that the word "application" itself might have to be redefined. Independent variability and evolution of the interconnected components are enabled through loosely coupled solutions, such as Serviceoriented Archi...

Can e-learning actually provide a level playing field for developing countries in the area of education? So far, it has not, but the obstacles are perhaps diminishing. 1. E-LEARNING FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD 1.1 EDUCATION AS ANTIDOTE TO POVERTY “Education is the only antidote to poverty” – A.R. Bawa, Dep Minister Education, Ghana (Bawa, 2003). While cheap, universally available education is desi...

Infection attributable cancers contribute over 1/4th of all cancers in the developing countries (26.3%) compared to the developed countries (7.7%), (Parkin, 2006). Overwhelming majority are related to viral infections. In contrast to other carcinogens where it is usually a ‘hit and run’ kind of situation, with infectious agents particularly viruses one may precisely demonstrate and prove its pr...

Energy security, a fuzzy concept, has traditionally been used to justify state control over energy and a reluctance to deal with energy issues at global level. However, over time, the concept is acquiring different meanings that are applicable at different levels of governance. Many of the elements of the new definitions also imply a number of inherent contradictions. Against this background, t...

Historically a GP, Dr Sarah Watkins took up acupuncture relatively late in her career, but has taken it a long way since then. In this article she presents a vivid picture of what it is like to introduce acupuncture to remote rural populations in parts of the developing world. She describes the rapidly growing demand of the local populations following just word-of-mouth spread that a new treatm...