Maputo Living Lab
The Maputo Living Lab (MLL) aims at applying the open innovation
paradigm of Living Labs by involving the local community as a
source for project ideas and as end-user group for the Living
Lab's products.
Furthermore, being located in a developing region,
MLL will have the goal of fostering local development by working
as a start-up incubator to promote local entrepreneurship, helping
the execution of innovative projects that can contribute to the
improvement of the quality of life in Mozambique.
Publications
Ciaghi, A., Molini, P., Villafiorita, A., & Weldemariam, K. S. (2013). Maputo living lab summer school of ICTs: An experience report. In IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition (IST-Africa), 2013 (pp. 1–8).
This paper presents our experience with the organization of the Summer School of ICTs (SSICT) of Maputo Living Lab. SSICT is a free 1-month course for 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students that provides practical training on the management, design and development of software projects that can have an impact on the local society. The School has been organized for 2 editions in 2011 and 2012 in Maputo, Mozambique and it is part of the larger Maputo Living Lab project.
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Sahilu, H., Villafiorita, A., Weldemariam, K., Belachew, M., & Zewge, A. (2012). Designing distributed agricultural information services for developing countries. In E. Cutrell, E. W. Zegura, G. Borriello, & B. Thies (Eds.), ACM DEV (p. 24). ACM.
Abstract
BibTeX
In developing countries, agriculture is the largest livelihood provider. Nevertheless, the vast majority of gains by farmers are unsatisfactory despite the efforts put into the agriculture cost inputs. At present smallholder farmers, farmers associations, consumers, intermediaries and supporting organizations (e.g., extension agencies) are often unable to engage effectively in agricultural markets since these markets are prone to inefficiencies. Small and subsistence farmers in particular tend to have unfavorable linkages to markets due to a lack of market orientation. They continue to rely on market information supplied and verified through traditional word-of-mouth approach. Many producers and smaller intermediaries also lack experience to effectively utilize such market information to improve their well-being.
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/dev/SahiluVWBZ12,
abstract = {In developing countries, agriculture is the largest livelihood provider. Nevertheless, the vast majority of gains by farmers are unsatisfactory despite the efforts put into the agriculture cost inputs. At present smallholder farmers, farmers associations, consumers, intermediaries and supporting organizations (e.g., extension agencies) are often unable to engage effectively in agricultural markets since these markets are prone to inefficiencies. Small and subsistence farmers in particular tend to have unfavorable linkages to markets due to a lack of market orientation. They continue to rely on market information supplied and verified through traditional word-of-mouth approach. Many producers and smaller intermediaries also lack experience to effectively utilize such market information to improve their well-being.},
author = {Sahilu, Henok and Villafiorita, Adolfo and Weldemariam, Komminist and Belachew, Mesfin and Zewge, Amanuel},
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title = {Designing distributed agricultural information services for developing countries},
topics = {ict4g, eagriculture},
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Zewge, A., Weldemariam, K., Hailemariam, S., Villafiorita, A., Susi, A., & Belachew, M. (2012). On the use of goal-oriented methodology for designing agriculture services in developing countries. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (pp. 40–47). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2457276.2457285
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Zewge:2012:UGM:2457276.2457285,
acmid = {2457285},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Zewge, Amanuel and Weldemariam, Komminist and Hailemariam, Sebsibe and Villafiorita, Adolfo and Susi, Angelo and Belachew, Mesfin},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems},
doi = {10.1145/2457276.2457285},
isbn = {978-1-4503-1755-9},
keywords = {conference},
location = {Addis Ababa, Ethiopia},
numpages = {8},
pages = {40–47},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {MEDES ’12},
title = {On the use of goal-oriented methodology for designing agriculture services in developing countries},
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year = {2012},
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Ciaghi, A., Villafiorita, A., Chemane, L., & Macueve, G. (2011). Stimulating Development through Transnational Living Labs: the Italo-Mozambican Vision. In Proceedings of the 6th Annual IST-Africa Conference Gabarone, Botswana.
In this paper, we present the vision for Maputo Living Lab (MLL), which started in January 2011, as part of a network of Living Labs located in developed and in developing regions. The Maputo Living Lab has the purpose of activating a transfer of competences, innovation and education between Trentino (an Autonomous Province in Northern Italy), Mozambique and other developing countries. The tight connection between Mozambique and Trentino makes some characteristics of MLL unique in the Living Labs panorama and poses various challenges that we describe in this paper.
@inproceedings{Ciaghi:2011uq,
abstract = {In this paper, we present the vision for Maputo Living Lab (MLL), which started in January 2011, as part of a network of Living Labs located in developed and in developing regions. The Maputo Living Lab has the purpose of activating a transfer of competences, innovation and education between Trentino (an Autonomous Province in Northern Italy), Mozambique and other developing countries. The tight connection between Mozambique and Trentino makes some characteristics of MLL unique in the Living Labs panorama and poses various challenges that we describe in this paper.},
author = {Ciaghi, Aaron and Villafiorita, Adolfo and Chemane, Lourino and Macueve, Gertrudes},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Annual IST-Africa Conference Gabarone, Botswana},
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title = {Stimulating Development through Transnational Living Labs: the Italo-Mozambican Vision},
topics = {ict4g, living_labs, mozambique},
year = {2011}
}
