Brittany Basham

Assignment 1: Information Literacy

Summary:
In 2013, Raj Desai and Pratik Agarwal attended a music festival where they
got separated for about two hours. They had no Wi-Fi to get in touch with each other
and were having issues getting around the trash around the area. They came up
with a box that would reward you 15 minutes of Wi-Fi for all of the trash you throw
away. The box is over four feet high with an LED screen and costs about $1,470.
The device is already very popular in Indian movie theatres. The Wi-Fi from these is
used to allow movie goers to order food and have it delivered to their seats. Private
companies and the government of Mumbai are being encouraged to contact the
company so that their 18 million citizens will have an incentive to throw things in
the trash bin instead of on the ground like a good bit of the 7,000 tons of waste
generated by the city daily. Other things that the can could do instead of provide
Wi-Fi are things like an image of a celebrity congratulating the citizen for using the
can. The cans are being used to fulfil Desais original goal of changing the mindset
of the people in India.
Search of two other engines:
Keywords: Wi-Fi, Trashcan, India, Technology
Search engines used: Google.com and Bing.com
Google took me to the original article I read and showed me multiple other
articles about other places having the same idea. Google showed that it has over
300 thousand results while Bing has over 550 thousand results. Google shows
more results per page and continues to show results most close to the keywords I
used. Bings second page had things about the history of Wi-Fi and who the best
trash can sellers are. I believe that Google was slightly better than Bing because it
had more searches that were most common with the keywords. Both websites have
a significant amount of ads on them. I chose the two first articles on both websites
for the 5 Ws.
5 Ws: Tech Times This Garbage Bin In India Rewards Users With Free Wi-Fi
1.) Who: Aaron Mamiit-No qualifications given. Article written for
techtimes.com.
2.) What: I havent noticed any spelling issues from this web page and the
website itself is fairly easy to navigate. No bibliography given.
3.) Why: To inform a reader about a trash can in India that provides Wi-Fi as a
reward for throwing away trash.
4.) Where: TechTimes.com is a business
5.) When: Written on August 18, 2015. It has not been updated. Not many
figures are included to tell if they are recent.
Searching the CCBC Library Database:

Brittany Basham
Assignment 1: Information Literacy
Keywords: Wi-Fi, Trashcan, India, Technology
One of the databases I used was the ProQuest website from the list of Science
and technology section. I searched the keywords and came across an article by
Ahmed K Noor who is affiliated to Old Dominion University in Virginia. The article
was copyrighted to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Sep. 2015.
The second database was the CCBC Library. The only article I could find was
about the application of wireless sensor networks for urban areas. The authors both
work at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan and the article
was published in the Journal of Network and Computer Applications in January 2016.
The article from ProQuest is much more reliable than the article from Tech
Times. This article gives information about the author and shows that his
information is real and reliable. It also provides links to where it got some of its
information and provides background information for the author.

Citations (in MLA format):

1.) Kavilanz, Parija. "Want to Clean up India? Turn Trash into Free Wi-Fi."
<i>CNNMoney</i>. Cable News Network, 23 Feb. 2016. Web. 23 Feb.
2016.
2.) Wallen, Jack. "Wireless Garbage In, Wireless Garbage out - TechRepublic."
<i>TechRepublic</i>. N.p., 24 July 2015. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
3.) Mamiit, Aaron. "This Garbage Bin In India Rewards Users With Free Wi-Fi
[Video]." <i>Tech Times RSS</i>. N.p., 18 Aug. 2015. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
4.) Noor, Ahmed K. "THE CONNECTED LIFE: THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING
COMING TO A BUILDING NEAR YOU." <i>ProQuest</i>. N.p., Sept. 2015.
Web. 23 Feb. 2016.
5.) Rashid, Bushra, and Mubashir Husain Rehmani. "Review: Applications Of
Wireless Sensor Networks For Urban Areas: A Survey." Journal Of Network
And Computer Applications 60.(2016): 192-219. ScienceDirect. Web. 23
Feb. 2016.