The Web of Radios - Introducing African Community Radio as an interface to the Web of Data
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“Foroba Blon” The Web of African Radios
@First International Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web Part 1 – Challenges
Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Pieter De Leenheer, Chris van
Aart, Nana Baah Gyan, Hans Akkermans 28 May 2012
Social, cultural...
• How we understand the context... • Organizing a project across continents... • A coup d’état...
Challenges...
• equipment, internet, smartphones • electricity • cost of phonecalls • sustainability and ecosystems
More challenges
• low levels of literacy • low levels of computer literacy • many different local languages spoken
Take into consideration
• Internet bandwidth is very small • No datacentres in Sahel countries • Very few local ICT businesses, experts,
semantic web experts in the local context...
Need for data sharing • Local news • NGOs inform the general public
• Regreening in Africa: examples of data
– spatial information – names of produces – Rainfall etc. – qualities of produces, sheabutter, seeds, honey
Knowledge must be relevant in the local context, created locally: not only consuming also producing !
More challenges
• Languages are unresourced-> no TTS or ASR • Who is going to develop voice web services,
apps, ontologies? • Who will provide maintain the service-
ecosystem?