"Internet in a box": Augmenting bandwidth with the eGranary Digital Library

Africa Today

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 21-37

  Miner, Edward A ^a   Missen, Cliff ^b  

^a University of Iowa Libraries   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DIGITIZATION; EDUCATION; INTERNET; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

AFRICA;

EID: 33846483070     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/aft.2005.52.2.20     Document Type: Article

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