Electronics and Communications Technology

Digital Media and Wireless Communications in Developing Nations
Agriculture, Education, and the Economic Sector

Editors: Megh R. Goyal, PhD
Emmanuel Eilu, PhD

Digital Media and Wireless Communications in Developing Nations

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: September 2019
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Hard ISBN: 9781771887854
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-461-5
E-Book ISBN: 9780429029318
Pages: 338 w/index
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback
Notes: 25 color and 30 b/w illustrations

Now Available in Paperback


Digital Media and Wireless Communications in Developing Nations: Agriculture, Education, and the Economic Sector explores how digital media and wireless communications, especially mobile phones and social media platforms, offer concrete opportunities for developing countries to transform different sectors of their economies. The volume focuses on the agricultural, economic, and education sectors. The chapter authors, mostly from Africa and India, provide a wealth of information on recent innovations, the opportunities they provide, challenges faced, and the direction of future research in digital media and wireless communication to leverage transformation in developing countries.

The volume presents a diverse selection research on such topics as
In agriculture:
  • mobile app that help to combat pests and diseases in tomatoes

  • using mobile technology to prevent illegal timber logging

In education:
  • E-learning in adult education for prison inmates

  • using social networks in health care education

In economics:
  • artificial intelligence to foster sustainable development

  • • reforming public finance management via an integrated financial management system


The volume provides important research on digital media and wireless communications within the context of developing countries that will be very useful for professionals from academia, government agencies, NGOs, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors, and others.


Key features:
  • Connects interdisciplinary research in digital media and wireless communications
  • Explores the benefits of digital media and wireless communications in the developing world context
  • Provides specific examples of the use of mobile phones and social media in different sectors
  • Looks at the most recent undertakings in digital media and wireless technologies and how they have been deployed in the agriculture, education, and economic sectors in developing countries

CONTENTS:
Preface

PART I: POTENTIAL USE OF MOBILE PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN AGRICULTURE
1. Potential of Mobile Phones as a Disruptive and Transformative Tool
Hector John Mongi and Alfred Said Sife

2. Transformative Power of Mobile Phones in the Indian Agro Supply Chain
George Joseph and K. A. Zakkariya

3. Potential of Mobile Phones and Social Media Platforms in the Agricultural Scenario
Kelvin Joseph Bwalya

4. The Role of Social Media in the Socio-Economic Development of Africa
Kehbuma Langmia

5. Mobile App-Based Expert System in Uganda: Combating Pests and Diseases in Tomatoes
Emmanuel Eilu

6. The Role of Mobile Phone Technology in Combating Illegal Timber Logging in Africa: A Review
Emmanuel Eilu

PART II: SELECTED APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION
7. Operational Use of Mobile Learning: Understanding and Retention of Curriculum Content
Jeremy Sunker, Oyetade Kayode Emmanuel, and Kehdinga George Fomunyam

8. Whatsapp-Based E-Learning in Adult Education for Lesotho’s Inmates: Methods and Evaluation
Selloane Pitikoe

9. Role of Teacher-Developer Relationship in Mobile Apps Learning
Soraya Sedkaoui

10. Integrating Social Media in Lesotho’s Distance Learning: Gaps and Opportunities
Selloane Pitikoe

11. Role of Social Networks in Health Care for Developing Countries
Jana Shafi, Amtul Waheed, and Sugapriya Dhanasekaran

PART III: RECENT STRATEGIES FOR MOBILE PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE ECONOMIC SECTOR
12. Potential of Streaming Transmission to Mobile Phones as Reinforcement of Community Radios
Celestino V. Joanguete

13. Luxury Brands on a Social Media Platform
Amit Kumar

14. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Development
Mounia Khelfaoui

15. Mobile Technology versus the Era of Eco-Design
Mounia Khelfaoui and Soraya Sedkaoui

16. Reforming Public Finance Management in Africa Using an Integrated Financial Management System
Emmanuel Eilu

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Megh R. Goyal, PhD
Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Senior Acquisitions Editor, Biomedical Engineering and Agricultural Science, Apple Academic Press, Inc.

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is now a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department at the College of Engineering at University of Puerto Rico–Mayaguez Campus (UPRM), and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief for Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc. During his professional career of 49 years, he has worked as Soil Conservation Inspector; Research Assistant at Haryana Agricultural University and the Ohio State University; Research Agricultural Engineer/Professor at the Department of Agricultural Engineering of UPRM; and Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering in the General Engineering Department of UPRM. He spent a one-year sabbatical leave at the Biomedical Engineering Department of Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Dr. Goyal was proclaimed the “Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the 20th Century” and has many awards, including Scientist of the Year, Blue Ribbon Extension Award, Research Paper Awards, Nolan Mitchell Young Extension Worker Award, Agricultural Engineer of the Year, Citations Man of Drip Irrigation by the Mayors of Municipalities of Mayaguez/Caguas/Ponce/Juana Diaz and Senate/Secretary of Agriculture of ELA, Membership Grand Prize for the Association of Agricultural Engineering Campaign, Felix Castro Rodriguez Academic Excellence, and several others. In his professional career of 47 years, he has been recognized as one of the experts “who rendered meritorious service for the development of [the] irrigation sector in India” by the Water Technology Centre of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, India; and in 2018, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers bestowed on him the Netafim Microirrigation Award in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Goyal has authored more than 200 journal articles and edited over 60 reference and textbooks. During 2014-16, AAP published his ten-volume book series on Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation. AAP is currently publishing book volumes on emerging technologies, issues, and challenges under two book series Innovations and Challenges in Sustainable Micro Irrigation and Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering. Dr. Goyal received his BSc degree in Engineering in 1971 from Punjab Agricultural University, India; his MSc degree in 1977 and PhD degree in 1979 from the Ohio State University; and his Master of Divinity degree in 2001 from the Puerto Rico Evangelical Seminary.

Emmanuel Eilu, PhD
Lecturer, Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda

Emmanuel Eilu, PhD, is a profound academic and holds a PhD in Information Technology from Makerere University in Uganda. He also holds an MS. degree in Information Technology, specializing in E-government. Since 2007, Dr. Eilu has been teaching both postgraduate and undergraduate courses at the School of Computing and IT, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Dr. Eilu has also worked as a Data Analyst Consultant for international NGOs. Currently, he is a lecturer at Uganda Christian University. His areas of research and interest are in human computer interaction (usability, user experience, motivation and acceptance), mobile user experience, and ICT for development (adoption of E-government systems; E-governance; E-voting; biometric voter registration systems; electronic civil registers, E- health and M-agriculture). His major teaching areas include usability and user experience, E-government, E-governance, SAD, information systems security, information systems audit, data communication networks and research methods. He has published numerous research papers.




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