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S5.3 A community-driven information system to develop next generation collaborative and responsive
rural community (NCoRe).
Jayanta Basak; Rishikesan Parthiban; Somprakash Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management
Calcutta, India); Siuli Roy (Heritage Institute of Technology, India)

Much of the ICT interventions for rural transformation are exogenous in nature (development from
outside), in the sense that they use a “push” approach towards development, without considering the
nature and problems of an individual member of the rural community. Information and knowledge
transactions, especially with dis-empowered people and groups, are a complex process and ICT needs
to be appropriated and used in a way that helps resolve daily concerns. With this perspective in mind,
this paper proposes NCoRe, an interactive community-driven information system platform to harness
the potential of community participation in governance. In a digitally-connected global society, each
individual in a community of people is not only a consumer of information but also a producer of
information: a potential contributor in many ways to build a better community. NCoRe exploits the
potential of community knowledge, making them available to the community and empowering the
communities to interact, collaborate and participate in the development of society and transforming the
way they live, learn and work. NCoRe is an ongoing initiative to build next-generation collaborative
and responsive community by empowering the rural community of India with an ICT-enabled
“capability framework” involving the self-help groups (SHG): the micro-communities within a village
community.

S5.4 Toward authenticated caller ID transmission: the need for a standardized authentication scheme in
Q.731.3 calling line identification presentation.*
Huahong Tu; Adam Doupé; Ziming Zhao; Gail-Joon Ahn (Arizona State University, USA)

The rising prevalence of phone fraud is hurting consumers and businesses. With about a half million
reports each year in the United States, phone fraud complaints have more than doubled since 2013. In
the current calling line identification presentation scheme, the caller ID is trivially spoofed. Scammers
are using spoofed caller IDs to trick their victims into answering unwanted calls and further a variety
of scams. To provide a solution to this problem, this paper proposes an authentication scheme that
provides the possibility of a security indicator for the current Q.731.3 calling line identification
presentation supplementary service. The goal of this proposal is to help prevent users from falling
victim to phone impersonation scams, as well as provide a foundation for future defenses to stop
unwanted calls based on the caller ID information. This work will help to guide the future development
of a standardized scheme in authenticating SS7 identities.

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