CAM- Rural mobile phone technology
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CAM is a mobile information services framework for rural areas in the
developing world. The key design elements of CAM are:
camera-based - barcodes link CAM to paper-based processes
user interface - finely tuned to rural users and the constraints and
opportunities of mobile devices
offline networking - using SMS and other SMTP-based protocols
mobile phones - long battery life, wireless connectivity, solid-state
memory, low price
localisation - easy to localize, even if phone doesnt support target
language
web-based - easy to connect to existing web services
The CAM framework consists of the CAMBrowser, a single mobile phone
application, CAMForm paper forms, equipped with embedded processing
instructions and the CAMServer, an on-line service that links CAM with
web-based services.
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