Internet Access by Talking and Listening Using any Phone: Help Global Development by Effectively Bridging the Digital and Language Divides
Emdad Khan, Eisa Aleisa
International Journal of Information Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2012.
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Link: https://www.dline.info/ijis/fulltext/v4n1/ijisv4n1_3.pdf
Abstract:
The need to effectively bridge the Digital Divide is very clear. While Internet is accessed and widely used mostly
by educated people via computers or high end phones, the Internet and its associated benefits are not accessible by many
people on the other side of the Digital Divide, namely, illiterate people, people having no access to a computer or high end
phone, elderly people and people with disabilities.
In this paper, we propose Voice Internet based Internet access that uses a state of the art â€œrenderingâ€ technology to convert
existing WWW (World Wide Web) content into Short, Precise, easily Navigable, Meaningful and pleasant to listen to content
that can be heard over any phone in real time . Such a â€œrenderingâ€ technology also supports filling of various on-line forms
by voice.
The rendering technology also bridges the Language Divides (over 70% Internet content today are in English; thus people
in non-English speaking countries are left out from major part of the Internet which is called the Language Divide) by
automatically translating the rendered content from one language into other languages.
Thus, our proposed Voice Internet technology bridges the Digital and Language Divides in a practical, cost effective, easy to
use , easy to learn and in a natural way as users basically talk and listen. As phone is ubiquitous, over 5 billion people who
have access to some phone can enjoy the benefits of the Internet using the proposed solution.
We also discuss how bridging the Digital & Language Divides, and focusing on Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
can help the Global Development, especially the Economic, Social and Cultural Developments with increased world peace.