CAM

operates in:
United States

contact:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~parikh/projects/CAM/index.html

CAM is a mobile application framework for the rural developing world.

The key design elements of CAM are:

  • Tight linkage to paper processes - barcodes link CAM to familiar paper formats
  • Camera and multimedia-driven UI - accessible to rural users and the constraints of mobile devices
  • Easy to program and use - easy to localize, even if phone doesn't support target language
  • Asynchronous networking - using SMS and other SMTP-based protocols
  • Mobile phones as a computing platform - battery-powered, familiar, cheap, immediately useful
  • Agent-based - supporting distributed data collection and dissemination

 

References / Past Projects

Read more about CAM and related projects on the CAM website.