Web alliance for Regreening in Africa

Publications

Research papers related to the W4RA project

Bon, A., Saa-Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H. (2024). Bridging the Digital Divide. In: Werthner, H., et al. Introduction to Digital Humanism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5_19

Panayiotou, A., Saa-Dittoh, F., & Bon, A. (2023, August). Resourcing Small Indigenous Languages in the Field. In International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (pp. 527-538). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.  [author’s version]

Saa-Dittoh, F., Connecting the Unconnected: Decolonising ICTs for the Developing World. In Vermeulen, I. (Ed.) Connected World: Insights from 100 Academics on How to Build Better Connections, VU University Press, Amsterdam (2023)

Anna Bon, André Baart, Lucas de Lange, Mohamed Coulibaly, Wendelien Tuijp (2023) – Decolonizing food systems through the plug-in principle – The case of cereal seed value chains in Mali. Chapter Contribution to the Plug-in Principle by Saa Dittoh et al (Eds.)  in prep.

Stan, G. V., Baart, A., Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H., & Bon, A. (2022, June). A Lightweight Downscaled Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition for Small Indigenous Languages. In 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (pp. 451-458). https://doi.org/10.1145/3501247.3539017

Anna Bon, Francis Dittoh, Gossa Lô, Mónica Pini, Robert Bwana, Cheah WaiShiang, Narayanan Kulathuramayir, André Baart (2022) Decolonizing Technology and Society: A Perspective from the Global South. In: Werthner H., Prem E., Lee E.A., Ghezzi C. (eds) Perspectives on Digital Humanism. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_9

Akkermans H., Gordijn J., Bon A. (2022) Return to Freedom: Governance of Fair Innovation Ecosystems. In: Werthner H., Prem E., Lee E.A., Ghezzi C. (eds) Perspectives on Digital Humanism. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_8

Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H. De Boer, V. Bon, A. Tuyp, W. and Baart, A. (2021) “Tibaŋsim: Information Access for Low-Resource Environments” in Yang, X.S., Sherratt, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2021, London, UK, Vol. 1, Singapore: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-2377-6_62

Huser, D., Bon, A., & Anifalaje, A. (2021). Uncovering generative mechanisms of information use for project monitoring in humanitarian health management information systems. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, e12184. [PDF]

Anna Bon.  What better informs ICT4D : desktop or field study? Bookreview of  Chib et al. (Eds.) Critical Perspectives on Open Development. Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, pre-print May 2021 [PDF].

Francis Dittoh, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, and André Baart. February 2021. Tibaŋsim: Information Access for Low-Resource Environments. Conference proceedings by Springer AISC. ISBN Number – 2194-5357 Series.   [PDF].

Sophie Vos, Hella Schaefers, Patricia Lago, Anna Bon. Sustainability and Ethics by Design in the Development of Digital Platforms for Low-Resource Environments. December 2020. Amsterdam Sustainability Institute Integrative Project. Technical Report. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. [PDF].

Dittoh, F., Akkermans, H., De Boer, V., Bon, A., Tuyp, W., & Baart, A. (2020, June). Information Access for Low-Resource Environments. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 325-326).

Anna Bon. Intervention or Collaboration?  Redesigning Information and Communication Technologies for Development. 15 December 2020,  PhD Thesis, Maastricht University. [PDF].

Sophie Vos, Hella Schaefers, Patricia Lago, Anna Bon. Towards Sustainability and Equality in Digital Development —
A case study of the cereal seed value chain in rural Mali. October 2020. In press. IFIP WG 9.4 [PDF].

Francis Dittoh, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, André Baart. Mr. Meteo: Providing Climate Information for the Unconnected. 2020. In 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20 Companion). July 6-10, 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402824 [PDF] [Presentation slides].

Anna Bon & Hans Akkermans. Digital (In) Equality, Digital Inclusion, Digital Humanism: Summary of the Web Science Workshop DigDivDigHum-20. 2020. In 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20 Companion). July 6-10, 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402893 [PDF] [Presentation slides].

Anna Bon, Jaap Gordijn and Cheah Wai Shiang. Digital inclusion requires a business model too. Sustainability analysis of value webs in rural Sarawak. 2020. In 12th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci ’20 Companion). July 6-10, 2020, Southampton, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3394332.3402832 [PDF] [Presentation slides].

Gossa Lô, Victor de Boer, Chris J. van Aart, Exploring West African Folk Narrative Text Using Machine Learning. 2020. MDPI  11(5), 236. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Derek van den Nieuwenhuijzen, Hans Akkermans  (Eds.) Wouter de Boer, Carlbandro Edoga, Marc Hegeman, Christine Dedding,  & Nicole Goedhart. Digital Divide, Citizenship and Inclusion in Amsterdam. February 2020. ISBN: 978-90-78289-22-7 Pangea,  Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Mónica Pini & Hans Akkermans (Eds.) Culture Citizenship, Participation. Comparative Perspectives from Latin America on Inclusive Education. September 2019. ISBN: 978-90-78289-17-3 Pangea, Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon & Mónica Pini (Eds.) Cultura, ciudadanía, participación. Perspectivas de la educación inclusiva. Septiembre 2019. ISBN:978-90-78289-15-9 Pangea, Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon. Intervention or Collaboration ? Rethinking Information and Communication Technologies for Development.  March 2019. ISBN: 978-90-78289-11-1 Pangea, Amsterdam. [PDF].

André Baart, Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Francis Dittoh, Wendelien Tuyp, Hans Akkermans. Affordable Voice Services to Bridge the Digital Divide: Presenting the Kasadaka Platform, in Selected Papers from the WEBIST 2018 International Conference, Springer LNBIP Book Series, Berlin, Germany, 2019, in press. Authors’ version: [PDF].

Anna Bon and Hans Akkermans [2019] “Digital Development: Elements of a Critical ICT4D Theory and Praxis”. In: P. Nielsen and H. C. Kimaro (Eds.): Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern- Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D, IFIP AICT 552, Chapter 3, Springer Nature Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_3 . Author’s version  [PDF]

Anna Bon, Jaap Gordijn, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, André Baart, Cheah Wai Shiang and Sze San Nah [2019]. “Community-centered, Project-based  ICT4D Education in the Field”. In: P. Nielsen and H. C. Kimaro (Eds.): Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern- Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D, IFIP AICT 552, Chapter 32, Springer Nature Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_32 . Authors’ version [PDF].

Baart, A., Bon, A., De Boer, V., Tuijp, W. & Akkermans, H., “Ney Yibeogo – Hello World: A voice service development platform to bridge the web’s digital divide.” 2018 WEBIST 2018 – Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Escalona, M. J., Monfort, V., Majchrzak, T. A. & Mayo, F. J. D. (eds.). SciTePress, p. 23-34 12 p.
[PDF].

Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Gayo Diallo, Jaap Gordijn (editors). Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”, Co-located with 10th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’18)  Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 27, 2018 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2120/

Chris Reij. Abstract of keynote at the 5th International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D” co-located with the 10th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci’18), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 27, 2018. [PDF].

Reshmi Sarkar and Jaap Gordijn. “Modeling Communities in e3value.” 2018. [PDF].

Gossa Lô, Victor de Boer, Stefan Schlobach, and Gayo Diallo. 2018. Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge. DOI:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6004532.v1

Bon, Anna, Hans Akkermans, and Jaap Gordijn. “Developing ICT Services in a Low-Resource Development Context.” Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly 9 (2016): 84-109.[PDF]

Onno Valkering, Victor de Boer, Gossa Lo, Romy Blankendaal, and Stefan Schlobach, The Semantic Web in an SMS. 2016, International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. [PDF]

Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Cheah Wai Shiang, Nana Baah Gyan (ed.) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web (Downscale2016) Co-­located with the 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) August 29, 2016 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Jaap Gordijn and Hans Akkermans, A Structured Model-Based Approach To Preview Sustainability in ICT4D 2016 In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Downscaling the Semantic Web, Co-located with the ICT4S Conference, August 2016 Amsterdam. [PDF]

Bon, Anna, Jaap Gordijn, and Hans Akkermans. “E-Service Innovation in Rural Africa Through Value Co-Creation.” Handbook of Research on Strategic Alliances and Value Co-Creation in the Service Industry. IGI Global, 2017. 355-373 .[PDF]

Bon, Anna, Jaap Gordijn, and Hans Akkermans. “A Low-resource Aware Framework for ICT Service Development in Rural Africa.” CAiSE Forum 2016. [PDF]

Nana Baah Gyan, The Web, Speech Technologies and Rural Development in West Africa, An ICT4D Approach. PhD Thesis Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2016. [PDF]

Victor de Boer, Nana Baah Gyan, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans: A Dialogue with Linked Data: Voice-based Access to Market Data in the Sahel. In: Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability 2015.  [PDF]

Gueret, Christophe, Victor de Boer, and Stefan Schlobach. “Let’s” Downscale” Linked Data.” Internet Computing, IEEE 18.2 (2014): 70-73. [IEEE link]

Stefan Schlobach, Victor de Boer, Christophe Guéret, Stéphane Boyera, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. From Knowledge Engineering for Development to Development Informatics. EKAW (Satellite Events) 2014: 18-29 [PDF]

Francis Dittoh, Chris van Aart, Victor de Boer: Voice-Based Marketing for Agricultural Products: A Case Study in Rural Northern Ghana. Presented at ICTD Conference, Cape Town 2013. [PDF]

Nana Baah Gyan, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans, Stephane Boyera, Max Froumentin, Aman Grewal, Mary Allen: Voice-based Web Access in Rural Africa. In: Proc. of the WebSci’13, May 1 – May 5, 2013, Paris, France. Nominated best paper award at the ACM Web Science 2013 Conference. [PDF]

Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Nana Baah Gyan, Chris van Aart, Pieter De Leenheer, Wendelien Tuyp, Stephane Boyera, Max Froumentin, Aman Grewal, Mary Allen, Amadou Tangara and Hans Akkermans: Use Case and Requirements Analysis in a Remote Rural Context in Mali. In: J. Doerr and A.L. Opdahl (Eds): REFSQ 2013, LNCS 7830, pp 331-346, 2013. [PDF].

Christophe Guéret, Victor de Boer and Anna Bon. Decentralised Open Data for World Citizens. PMOD Using Open Data policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. W3C. [PDF]

Victor de Boer, Nana Baah Gyan, Anna Bon, Pieter de Leenheer, Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans “Voice-based Access to Linked Market Data in the Sahel” First International Workshop on DownScaling the Semantic Web, hosted by Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012. [PDF]

Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Pieter De Leenheer, Chris van Aart, Nana Baah Gyan, Max Froumentin, Stephane Boyera, Mary Allen, Hans Akkermans”The Web of Radios – Introducing African Community Radio as an interface to the Web of Data”. In: E. Simperl et al. (Eds) ESWC2012 Satellite Events, LNCS 7540, pp 1-14, 2015. [PDF]

Victor de Boer, Pieter De Leenheer, Anna Bon, Nana Baah Gyan, Chris van Aart, Christophe Guéret, Wendelien Tuyp, Stéphane Boyera, Mary Allen, Hans Akkermans”Radio Marché: Distributed Voice- en Web Interfaced Market Information System under Rural Conditions”. Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE’2012, Gdansk, Poland, 25-29 June 2012. [PDF].

Christophe Guéret, Stefan Schlobach, Victor De Boer, Anna Bon and Hans Akkermans. “Is data sharing the privilege of a few? Bringing Linked Data to those without the Web” Outrageous Ideas at International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011). Jury award winning paper. 1st Place [PDF]

Chris van Aart, Anna Bon, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, Stephane Boyera, Wendelien Tuyp, Nana Baah Gyan”The Web of Voices: how to connect 4.5 billion  internet-less people to the Web”: Outrageous Ideas, International Semantic Web Conference 2011 (ISWC 2011). Public award winning paper. 3rd Place. [PDF]

Hans Akkermans, Nana Baah Gyan, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp, Stephane Boyera, Aman Grewal, Mary Allen”Is (Web) Science ready for Empowerment” by . ACM Web Science Conference 2011. [PDF]

Working papers W4RA
Jaap Gordijn, Cheah WaiShiang, Anna Bon, Hans Akkermans. Understanding financial sustainability of ICT services for social and economic development using e3value, May 2019, download [PDF].

Francis Dittoh, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Wendelien Tuyp,  André Baart. Mr. Meteo: Providing Climate Information for the Unconnected. 2019 Submitted to the WebSci19 Conference. Authors’ version: [PDF].

Anna Bon and Hans Akkermans: ICT4D — Information Systems and Digital Development, W4RA Working Paper 2018-1, The Network Institute, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF].

Hans Akkermans & Anna Bon : ICT4D 3.0 and a pragmatic format for use case and requirements analysis 2016. Working Papers 2016-1, The Network Institute VU University Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon & Hans Akkermans. “Rethinking Technology, ICTs and Development: Why it is Time to Consider ICT4D 3.0”. 2015. Working Papers 2015-1, The Network Institute VU University Amsterdam. [PDF].

Anna Bon, Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans, Mary Allen,  Victor de Boer, Stéphane Boyera, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Chris Reij, Amadou Tangara, Wendelien Tuyp. 2014. Les TICs dans les chaînes de valeur agro-forestières. W4RA Working Papers 2014-1, The Network Institute VU University Amsterdam. [PDF].