A diagram of the World Wide Telecom Web, also known as "Spoken Web"

A diagram of the World Wide Telecom Web, also known as "Spoken Web"

Detail map of Punjabi Bagh Cooperative Housing Soceity, MO, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi, India Overview map of Punjabi Bagh Cooperative Housing Soceity, MO, Karol Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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The World Wide Telecom Web for Illiterate Populations

8/2007

In August 2007 Arun Kumar and others at IBM Research - India, New Delhi,  published "WWTW: The World Wide Telecom Web", a voice-driven Internet designed for illiterate populations:

"our vision of a voice-driven ecosystem parallel to that of the WWW. WWTW is a network of interconnected voice sites that are voice driven applications created by users and hosted in the network. It has the potential to enable the underprivileged population to become a part of the next generation converged networked world. We present a whole gamut of existing technology enablers for our vision as well as present research directions and open challenges that need to be solved to not only realize a WWTW but also to enable the two Webs to cross leverage each other."

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