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ABSTRACT

Every day about 1 million people become mobile phone users - 85% of these live in the developing world. The biggest potential of future mobile development will not be in the already saturated 1st economy market but in the market of about one billion potential mobile users in emerging economies. In contrast to the impressive rise of mobile phone usage, the mobile services and applications provided for this new market are far behind expectations. Due to infrastructural (low, erratic and expensive bandwidth, low end devices) and social (illiteracy, novice ICT users) impediments a copy&paste approach of well known application and architecture concepts from the 1st economy will not work. My research goal is the development of a Mobile Application Framework (MAF) containing guidelines, concepts, and best practices to provide novice IT users in rural areas of emerging economies with the most appropriate access to ICT according to the infrastructural and cultural impediments.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.2 User/Machine Systems

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors

Keywords:
ICT4D, mobile HCI, mobile application, next billion