Technology Consultant Project

Goal: Our project goal is to research the minimum technological tools that meet the criteria for accessing, communicating, and displaying information in rural areas. Project Description: Desta seeks to determine effective, affordable, scalable solutions for sharing and receiving information in rural communities. Desta reasons that to do this will require tools for sending and receiving information (smart phone, netbook, computer, etc) and tools for presenting information (projector, DVD players and TVs, netbooks, etc).

The work involves logic and programming as well as author and user end interfaces that are intuitive and easy to work with. Broadly, this work can be divided into three major parts:

Output Design: This would be a standalone application built for the Android platform, but possibly compatible with other operating systems like Windows and iOS. Knowledge of HTML5 (or any other equivalent application) would be ideal for this work profile. Knowledge of design softwares and basic design capabilities would be an added advantage.