paper offers solutions in the form of both business models and   tools   to   overcome   technical   constraints   of  OSAT development in the forms of the platforms necessary on which to share and build knowledge about appropriate technologies. These solutions are  open,  easily accessible for those in need,  have a low barrier to   entry   for  both

resources, F/OS communities make significant efforts to lower the barriers to entry for new developers. Nevertheless, new developers face a number of difficulties which are associated with different aspects of development and participation. The paper draws on doctoral research [1] to highlight

Abstract Speech technology has enabled computer accessibility for users with visual impairments but the language barrier poses a great challenge. This project is an effort to overcome the hurdles faced by visually impaired people, in terms of language barrier, by providing them access to digital

Abstract—Smartphone platforms and applications (apps) have gained tremendous popularity recently. Due to the novelty of the smartphone platform and tools, and the low barrier to entry for app distribution, apps are prone to errors, which affects user experience and requires frequent bug fixes

or men-toring initiatives. Not overcoming this lack of testing skills early on can hinder the newcomer’s professional progress in becoming a high-quality engineer. Studying open source developers, we found that they rely on a project’s pre-existing test code to learn how to write tests and adapt test

of multilinguality. This paper describes a multilingual indexing, searching and clustering system, designed to manage huge sets of data collected from different and geographically distributed information sources, which provides language independent search and dynamic classification features. The automatic linguistic

the focus group participants considered to be the benefits of and barriers to computer use. This article further underscores the importance of accessibility and usability as being helpful concepts for exploring the role of technology in people's lives. Cyberspace seems a distillation of America. Both

We present a description of the implementation of the open source decoder for statistical machine translation which has become popular with many researchers in SMT research. The goal of the project is to create an open, high quality phrase-based decoder which can reduce the time and barrier

Paper prepared for the NBER project on “Risks of Financial Institutions”. We benefited from suggestions and criticism by many participants in the NBER project on “Risks of financial institutions”, in particular by the organizers Mark Carey (also involving Dean Amel and Allen Berger) and Rene Stulz

that the villagers (unfortunately, the greastest impact is on women) had to revert to the pre-project situation of kerosene lamps and unsafe water from the open pond. 4. Finally, a change of feedstock from a biogas source for the dual-fuel diesel engine-cum-generator to vegetable oil from Pongamia pinnata seeds