Presentation by Sibukele Gumbo from the SIYAKHULA LIVING LAB on the 2nd March 2011 at the 2nd annual LLiSA conference.

1. www.dwesa.org By Sibukele Gumbo s.gumbo@ru.ac.za

2. An ICT4D initiative based in the Dwesa and Nkwalini communities of the Eastern Cape

4. Extreme rurality (high illiterate levels, households electrified in December 2009, population of about 15, 000, area under control of traditional leadership so need to adopt and recognise local structures, highly affected by rural-urban migration, high unemployment)

5. Empowered community (one of South Africas first successful land reclaim)

6. Poor telecommunications infrastructure

7. Points of presence at five schools in the area1

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9. An ICT4D initiative based in the Dwesa and Nkwalini communities of the Eastern Cape

10. Home to beautiful Xhosa arts, craft and culture

11. Short term objectives Build direct benefits for the stakeholders Development of innovative user-driven context-sensitive eServices to the direct benefit of the communities (e.g. eCommerce, mCommerce, eHealth, eJudiciary) Localized (linguistic and cultural), audio based IK-based Community innovation Distributed community telecommunication infrastructure Community empowerment through computer literacy training (e.g. pre-ACE ICT course) , training project champions etc 1

12. Long term objectives Network the community and build the bridge to the knowledge society Technical and financial sustainability Scalable and replicable model for similar Improved partnerships between the private, public, academia and rural sectors to support rural development Improve semantic technologies – i,e, provide smart software which smoothes out ICT adoption according to local norms and language and makes exchange of information online easier; 1

14. Difficulty to embedded within the provincial system of innovation

15. Adapt and ICT technologies in an area with erratic electricity supply, mountainous terrain

16. Accreditation of literacy offered

17. Funding is mainly through university structures1

19. Engaging communities very strongly when building prototype eServices

20. Cohosting events, living with and meetings held with the communities

21. External auditing of the initiative when available

22. Setup of software factory1

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24. our Story rural Empowerment of a community multidisciplinary multistakeholder

25. Thank you… Siyakhula Living Lab http://www.dwesa.org 6