Abstract The Linked Data movement has facilitated efficient data sharing in many domains.
However, people in rural develo** areas are mostly left out. Lack of relevant content and …

Linked Data applications often assume that connectivity to data repositories and entity
resolution services are always available. This may not be a valid assumption in many cases …

Open data policies and linked data publication are powerful tools for increasing
transparency, participatory governance, and accountability. The linked data community …

How can we design and build digital technologies for and together with people in poor areas
of the world, for goals chosen by themselves? And can we do this in a way that is inclusive …

Many ICT applications and services, including those from the Semantic Web, rely on the
Web for the exchange of data. This includes expensive server and network infrastructures …

There are about 4.5 billion people in the world who have no or limited Internet access.
Those are deprived from using entitydriven applications that assume data repositories and …

Contextual constraints play an important role in ICT for Development (ICT4D) projects.
These ICT4D projects include those whose goal is to enable information and knowledge …

The increased availability, robustness, and moderate cost of sensors; the increased capacity
of computer chips; and the wide spread of Internet and wireless connectivity are adding a …

The entity registry system (ERS) is a decentralized entity registry that can be used to replace
the Web as a platform for publishing linked data when the latter is not available. In …

Web of Objects and Linked Data applications often assume that connectivity to data
repositories and entity resolution services are always available. This may not be a valid …