Sociotechnical challenges in the design of a knowledge portal

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-28

  Mee, Wendy ^a   Katz, Evie ^a,b   Alem, Leila ^b   Kravis, Simon ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c KAZ Technology Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information and communications technology design; Integration of social and technical research; Interdisciplinary project case studies; Knowledge sharing IC technology; Meta design in ICT; Sociotechnical design processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847420829     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701192996     Document Type: Review

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