Ubiquitous computing has the potential to cut across cultures and countries, to be both locally valuable and globally pervasive. To reach this potential, it's important for researchers to recognize the challenges, rewards, goals, and methods of developing these technologies--not just in wealthy IT-saturated environments, but in developing economies and regions as well.
Index Terms:
emerging economies, developing economies
Citation:
Mary Baker, "Guest Editor's Introduction: Pervasive Computing for Emerging Economies," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 12-14, Apr.-June 2006, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2006.31