TY - GEN
T1 - The GAIUS Experience
T2 - 2024 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2024
AU - Asim, Rohail
AU - Sathiaseelan, Arjuna
AU - Chatterjee, Arko
AU - Lal, Mukund
AU - Zaki, Yasir
AU - Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025/3/11
Y1 - 2025/3/11
N2 - Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in developing regions, mobile users continue to experience a poor web experience due to two key factors: (i) lack of locally relevant content; (ii) poor web performance due to complex web pages and poor network conditions. In this paper, we describe our design, implementation and deployment experiences of GAIUS, a mobile content ecosystem that enables efficient creation and dissemination of locally relevant web content into hyperlocal communities in emerging markets. The basic building blocks of GAIUS are a lightweight content edge platform combined with a mobile application that collectively provide a Hyperlocal Web abstraction for mobile users to create and consume locally relevant content and interact with other users via a community abstraction. The GAIUS platform uses MAML, a web specification language that dramatically simplifies web pages to reduce the complexity of Web content within the GAIUS ecosystem, improve page load times and reduce network costs. In this paper, we describe our experiences deploying GAIUS across a large user base in India, Bangladesh and Kenya.
AB - Despite increasing mobile Internet penetration in developing regions, mobile users continue to experience a poor web experience due to two key factors: (i) lack of locally relevant content; (ii) poor web performance due to complex web pages and poor network conditions. In this paper, we describe our design, implementation and deployment experiences of GAIUS, a mobile content ecosystem that enables efficient creation and dissemination of locally relevant web content into hyperlocal communities in emerging markets. The basic building blocks of GAIUS are a lightweight content edge platform combined with a mobile application that collectively provide a Hyperlocal Web abstraction for mobile users to create and consume locally relevant content and interact with other users via a community abstraction. The GAIUS platform uses MAML, a web specification language that dramatically simplifies web pages to reduce the complexity of Web content within the GAIUS ecosystem, improve page load times and reduce network costs. In this paper, we describe our experiences deploying GAIUS across a large user base in India, Bangladesh and Kenya.
KW - Advertisement Ecosystem
KW - Cloud Computing Infrastructure
KW - Content Creation
KW - Developing Regions
KW - Edge Systems
KW - Hyperlocal Ecoystem
KW - Sustainable Computing
KW - User Experience
KW - Web Accessibility
KW - Web Simplification
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U2 - 10.1145/3700794.3700818
DO - 10.1145/3700794.3700818
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105002272636
T3 - ICTD 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
SP - 236
EP - 246
BT - ICTD 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 9 December 2024 through 11 December 2024
ER -