Bridging the digital divide: Understanding information access practices in an indian village community

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 741-742

  Lalmas, Mounia ^a   Bhat, Ramnath ^b   Frank, Maxine ^b   Frohlich, David ^c   Jones, Matt ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Namma Dhwani ^*  (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital divide; Information access; Information need

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DIGITAL DIVIDE; INFORMATION ACCESS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 36448995360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1277741.1277886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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