TY - GEN
T1 - A smart computing framework centered on user and societal empowerment to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
AU - Ginige, Athula
AU - Javadi, Bahman
AU - Calheiros, Rodrigo N.
AU - Hendriks, Sheryl L.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - ![CDATA[The United Nations has developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to transform our world. Smart Computing aims to combine advances in Information and Communication Technologies including Internet of Things, cloud computing, mobile computing and social computing to create smart systems to make human life better. Smart Computing is providing a new approach to address many of the complex and challenging problems and is a valuable tool to support progress towards many SDGs. The lack of a suitable framework to handle the complex multi-disciplinary nature of these applications is hindering sustainable development. Based on a series of solutions we have developed for agriculture domain to address the first three SDGs (i.e., No Poverty, Zero Hunger, and Good Health and Wellbeing), we proposed a smart computing framework centered on user and societal empowerment. This framework consists of six dimensions: Economics, Domain Knowledge, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, User Empowerment and Societal Empowerment. As a way of validation, we adopted this framework to design a mobile-based information system to address “Hidden Hunger” in African countries and carried out a preliminary evaluation. Having the framework to guide our thinking and designing of the solution helped us to frame a holistic solution centered on user and societal empowerment. The proposed framework can be adopted to develop effective and innovative solutions to address many SDGs.]]
AB - ![CDATA[The United Nations has developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to transform our world. Smart Computing aims to combine advances in Information and Communication Technologies including Internet of Things, cloud computing, mobile computing and social computing to create smart systems to make human life better. Smart Computing is providing a new approach to address many of the complex and challenging problems and is a valuable tool to support progress towards many SDGs. The lack of a suitable framework to handle the complex multi-disciplinary nature of these applications is hindering sustainable development. Based on a series of solutions we have developed for agriculture domain to address the first three SDGs (i.e., No Poverty, Zero Hunger, and Good Health and Wellbeing), we proposed a smart computing framework centered on user and societal empowerment. This framework consists of six dimensions: Economics, Domain Knowledge, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, User Empowerment and Societal Empowerment. As a way of validation, we adopted this framework to design a mobile-based information system to address “Hidden Hunger” in African countries and carried out a preliminary evaluation. Having the framework to guide our thinking and designing of the solution helped us to frame a holistic solution centered on user and societal empowerment. The proposed framework can be adopted to develop effective and innovative solutions to address many SDGs.]]
KW - Internet of things
KW - United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
KW - cloud computing
KW - food security
KW - nutrition
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:57287
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-34863-2_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-34863-2_14
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9783030348625
SP - 158
EP - 172
BT - Proceedings of Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas (InterSol 2019), Third EAI International Conference, Cairo, Egypt, February 14-15, 2019
PB - Springer
T2 - International Conference on Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas
Y2 - 14 February 2019
ER -