Views on the role of mobile phones in post-training support in South Africa
The Department of Health of South Africa recently initiated an ambitious training project to address the high level of youth unemployment. This project aims to provide a total of 3535 unemployed youth with the skill set to succeed as data capturers working in health facilities nationally. In this research, we discuss the results of the analysis (including data mining) of data from questionnaires, as completed by the trainees involved, in order to obtain a deeper understanding of their typical profiles and mobile phone usage patterns. The results confirm findings from existing research and relate to gendered uses of mobile phones and factors in the rural-urban mobile phone divide in developing countries. Valuable pointers are identified towards more focused research on the rural-urban mobile technology divide, which might contribute to a better understanding of the complexities at play in constituting this divide.
Mobile post-training support mobile learning gendered uses of mobile technology rural and urban mobile technology divide health informatics data mining
Machdel Matthee Herna L Viktor Salvador Valencia
Department of Informatics University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa School of IT and Engineering University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
国际会议
10th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning(第十届移动学习国际会议)
北京
英文
286-293
2011-10-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）