An Architecture for future ICT services for Rural Areas

Abstract- The pace of change and technological evolution has accelerated greatly over the last decades, with unequivocally positive transformations for societies, companies, and individuals. It is remarkable not only how dramatically the technologies in everyday use have changed, but also how easily society as a whole has adopted these innovations. The need for ICT service provision in rural areas has been targeted by different ICT stakeholders. This has been encouraged by ICT services which are available within many areas in the world. Most ICT researchers are targeting rural areas and providing different services ranging from, e-Commerce, e-Health, e-Government, e-Learning to mobile services. However, most of these services are affected by technological changes and as a result are not benefiting the targeted people. The case study approach, literature review, interviews and architectural development and experimentation are some of the research techniques to be used in the work reported in this paper