Design and Implementation of Mobile Portal for Kenyan Pastoralists
- 1 Department of Information Technology, School of Information Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
- 2 Department of Information Technology, School of Information Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
- 3 Department of Information Technology, School of Information Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Abstract
A mobile portal is an internet gateway that provides online services primarily accessed via mobiles and other handheld devices. Mobile portals are part of web 3.0 that is starting to revolutionize online services. Such portals can help pastoralists in Kenya access essential information and marketing services online. The aim of the study was to design and implement a mobile portal that will help Kenyan pastoralists improve their yields. The study adopted systems development life cycle (SDLC) methodology to design, implement and test the portal and used structured interviews and observation to collect user requirements. The portal was coded in J2ME, JSP and SQL languages and developed using Java Development Kit (JDK), Sun Wireless Toolkit, Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT), Struts, Tomcat and MySQL. The outcome of the study was the mobile portal successfully developed, tested and deployed.
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