Bridging the divide: Building Asia-Pacific capacity for effective reforms

Information Society

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-117

  Samarajiva, Rohan ^a   Gamage, Sujata ^a  

^a LIRNEasia   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific; Capacity building; Field building; Information and communication technologies; Just in time learning; Open source research; Research networks; Telecommunications reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847678031     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240701224200     Document Type: Review

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