Design, development and deployment of a mobile E-commerce application for rural south Africa-a case study

8th International Conference Advanced Communication Technology, ICACT 2006 - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1479-1484

  Chipangura, B ^a   Terzoli, A ^b   Muyingi, H ^a   Rao, G S V R Krishna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Database; Mobile computing; Usability; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WEBSITES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

E-COMMERCE WEBSITES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33750958674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icact.2006.206264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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