Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with mobile phones in a rural sugarcane cooperative
Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with mobile phones in a rural sugarcane cooperative
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Warana Unwired：农村甘蔗合作社用手机取代电脑
DOI：
10.1109/ictd.2007.4937395
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2007
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K. Toyama
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作者：
R. Veeraraghavan;Naga Yasodhar;K. Toyama
在本文中，我们提出了我们认为是第一个记录在案的实验，以取代现有的基于 PC 的系统，该系统的目标是用基于移动电话的系统“弥合农业区的数字鸿沟”，其中少量但相关的数据通过 SMS 短信传输给农民。 Warana Unwired 在马哈拉施特拉邦农村地区实施，旨在用基于短信的移动电话系统取代现有的基于 PC 的甘蔗合作社信息管理系统。在涉及七个村庄的为期八个月的试验中，Warana Unwired 成功复制了所有基于 PC 的功能，并且发现它比以前的基于 PC 的系统更便宜、更方便且更受农民欢迎。本文讨论了 Warana 有线村项目的早期调查，这些调查导致了 Warana 无线项目的构思和实施。详细描述了新系统，并对结果进行了定量和定性分析。
In this paper, we present what we believe to be the first documented experiment to replace an existing PC-based system that had goals of "bridging the digital divide" for an agricultural district with a mobile-phone-based system in which a small, but relevant amount of data is transferred to farmers via SMS text messaging. Implemented in rural Maharashtra, Warana Unwired sought to replace an existing PC-based system for managing information in a sugarcane cooperative with an SMS-based mobile-phone system. In an eight-month trial involving seven villages, Warana Unwired successfully replicated all of the PC-based functionality, and was found to be less expensive, more convenient, and more popular with farmers than the previous PC-based system. This paper discusses the early investigations of the Warana Wired Village Project that led to the conception and implementation of the Warana Unwired project. The new system is described in detail, and results, both quantitative and qualitative are analyzed.