This technology has come from the unlikeliest of the places – Ghana. Developers of this African country have played a major role in creating Semacode, a physical Wikipedia. It’s an open source project (conceived in Canada) that strives to link the physical world to the related information on the Internet via mobile phone.
How does it work? Semacode works by embedding a URL into a two-dimensional barcode – or the tag – which is attached to any physical object. The software contains the capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on mobile phone. A semacode reader attached to the phone reads the tag and extracts the URL using the mobile browser. So semacodes link physical objects to the related information on the net using mobile phone. And this revolutionary technology has been developed by software developers at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre for Excellence in Ghana, the most unexpected destination for Mobile 2.0 technology. [More here]
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