Impactful Research Publications

(Author(s); Year; Title; journal / publisher)

Terzoli, A., Sieborger, I., Tsietsi, M. and Gumbo, S. (2018) Digital Inclusion: A Model for e-Infrastructure and e-Services in Developing Countries. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. 250 (2018). p.85-98.

Terzoli, A., Sieborger, I., Sibukele, G., Community ‘Broadband Islands’ for Digital Government Access in Rural South Africa, 17th European Conference on Digital Government, Military Academy, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2017

Gumbo, S.,Thinyane, H., Thinyane, M., Terzoli, A., Hansen, S., Living lab methodology as an approach to innovation in ICT4D: The Siyakhula Living Lab experience, IST-Africa 2012, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 2012

Thinyane, M., and Terzoli, A., Universal Digital Inclusion: Beyond Connectivity, Affordability and Capability, ITU Kaleidoscope - Innovations for Digital Inclusion Conference, Mar del Plata, Argentina, August 2009.

Wertlen, R., and Terzoli, A., Peer-to-Peer Web Services for Distributed Rural ICT, Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), Royal Swazi Spa, Swaziland, August 2009

The five publications above are from the main project I initiated and have been responsible since 2005, involving two Universities (Fort Hare and Rhodes), supported by a large public / private partnership which included international members and a community in the Mbhashe Municipality.

The project was known as Siyakhula Living Lab and developed experimentally a model for the distribution of meaningful ICTs in poor communities of South Africa. The model, which reached a pre-commercial stage through a start-up company called Reed House Systems, was however never adopted by the South African government.