An Evaluation Capacity-Building Process for Sustainable Community IT Initiatives: Empowering and Disempowering Impacts

Evaluation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 390-414

  Lennie, June ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

community capacity building; disempowerment; empowerment; participatory action research; participatory evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544431643     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389005059382     Document Type: Article

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