Introduction to the Concept of People Net : a Learning Tool and Service Net for Poor and Undereducated People

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

People Net is a human technology approach driven service net and learning tool for poor and uneducated people in Asia. It is a service concept designed to ensure the target population’s access to how-to-knowledge information they require for advancing their lives. The key idea is to exploit mobile internet technologies, focusing on human action-oriented and culturally-sensitive ISD initiatives. The practices of openinnovation and open-source, open-access communities are especially fertile for developing ecologically valid, practical answers to concrete problems of deprived people in their environments. People Net intends to connect people with critical knowledge resources and deficits regarding every-day activities. The core of this project is to define the technology, knowledge content systems, and interaction modes for the service development. The aim is to make People Net participation and use sufficiently attractive and simple especially for uneducated citizens.