Mobile phone adoption and use in lockhart river aboriginal community

Dyson, LE; Brady, F

Mobile phone adoption and use in lockhart river aboriginal community

Dyson, LE Brady, F

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Citation:: 2009 8th International Conference on Mobile Business, 2009, pp. 170 - 175
Issue Date:: 2009-11-20

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dc.contributor.author	Dyson, LE	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Brady, F	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-11-20	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2009 8th International Conference on Mobile Business, 2009, pp. 170 - 175	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780769536910	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11930
dc.description.abstract	This paper reports on an ethnographic study of mobile phone adoption and use in a remote Aboriginal community in Cape York, Australia. The researchers found that, within nine months of the introduction of the 3G network, 58% of the Indigenous people interviewed had acquired a mobile phone, a much higher rate of adoption than any other ICT. The phones were employed for communication, with multimedia uses (music, games, videos, photos) also very popular. Issues included the cost, robustness and usability of the devices, although most people managed costs well by purchasing pre-paid phones. The findings suggest a number of possible initiatives that government, service providers and business could consider to leverage mobile phone usage and develop capacity in the community. © 2009 IEEE.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	2009 8th International Conference on Mobile Business	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1109/ICMB.2009.37	en_US
dc.title	Mobile phone adoption and use in lockhart river aboriginal community	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
dc.location.activity	Dalian, Liaoning, China	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Computer Science
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HCTD - Human Centred Technology Design
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

Abstract:

This paper reports on an ethnographic study of mobile phone adoption and use in a remote Aboriginal community in Cape York, Australia. The researchers found that, within nine months of the introduction of the 3G network, 58% of the Indigenous people interviewed had acquired a mobile phone, a much higher rate of adoption than any other ICT. The phones were employed for communication, with multimedia uses (music, games, videos, photos) also very popular. Issues included the cost, robustness and usability of the devices, although most people managed costs well by purchasing pre-paid phones. The findings suggest a number of possible initiatives that government, service providers and business could consider to leverage mobile phone usage and develop capacity in the community. © 2009 IEEE.

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