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Mobile applications are proliferating in all business domains. In the tourism sector, that is information intensive, and a global phenomenon, the development of efficient solutions for deliver information and services for "information-starving" tourists is a challenge, and opportunity but mostly a necessity of modern competitive touristic destinations. This paper briefly discusses the role that mobile devices applications have in the support of information and services of Cabo Verde visiting tourists and presents the design and development of a prototype application Android-based that enable important information and services for all Cabo Verde tourists that need to know more about Cabo Verde islands and their important information and services, manly related with their culture, gastronomy, events and hospitality services.

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Mobile applications are proliferating in all business domains. In the tourism sector, that is information intensive, and a global phenomenon, the development of efficient solutions for deliver information and services for “information-starvingâ€� tourists is a challenge, and opportunity but mostly a necessity of modern competitive touristic destinations. This paper briefly discusses the role that mobile devices applications have in the support of information and services of Cabo Verde visiting tourists and presents the design and development of a prototype application Android-based that enable important information and services for all Cabo Verde tourists that need to know more about Cabo Verde islands and their important information and services, manly related with their culture, gastronomy, events and hospitality services. © 2019 International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA).

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The provision of gerontological care in rural areas represents an added challenge when applied to rural scenarios. This paper discusses the role of technology in gerontology and specifically how technology-based solutions can be developed to assist the elderly population in rural areas. It is also characterized the Northeast Portuguese region exposing its rural characteristics and presented some demographic numbers. Finally, a conceptual model and a prototype supported by mobile devices are presented to assist and monitor the elderly. The developed prototype allows not only to assist the elderly in a set of typical elderly population routines - such as those related to health - but also to improve the interaction between the elderly and their relatives and / or caregivers. This work is part of a more extensive effort that has been made in the search for effective solutions to assist the elderly population in rural areas, typically distant from the main health and / or support services; contributing to relieve these deficits.

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Tourism and manly experience and cultural heritage tourism are growing in tourist's interests. Rural regions have an untapped potential for this slice of tourism industry. Also, rural regions have an enormous collection of ancestral knowledge. Unfortunately, all this knowledge typically is elders-centered and it lack effective processes of digitalization, storage and providing systems for that all this heritage can be perpetuated through future generations. From this base-thinking it was created a project case study limited to the Portuguese Northeast region, named Viv@vo - living in the grandma's house. This paper presents this project and what it has been achieved during the project development process.

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Rural regions concentrate on themselves a very rich set of ancestral traditions. The perpetuation of such traditions has been achieved through transmission between generations. Unfortunately, all this knowledge is typically elders-centered and it lacks effective processes of digitalization, storage and providing-systems for that all this heritage can effectively be perpetuated through future generations that are digital-born. From this base, it was created a project case study limited to the Portuguese Northeast region, named Viv@vó – living in the grandma's house. This paper presents the ICT platform that was created in this project and some main achievements during the project development process. Tourism and mainly experience and cultural heritage tourism are growing in tourist’s interests. Rural regions have an untapped potential for this slice of tourism industry. Rural regions have an enormous collection of ancestral knowledge that we are responsible to deliver to future generations as an inheritance to which they are entitled. Copyright © 2019. Carlos R. CUNHA, Aida CARVALHO, Luís AFONSO, Daniel SILVA, Paula Odete FERNANDES, Luís Carlos PIRES, Carlos COSTA, Ricardo CORREIA, Elsa RAMALHOSA, Alexandra I. CORREIA and Alexandre PARAFITA.