Rethinking the digital divide: Towards a path of digital effectiveness

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barclay, Corlane ^a   Duggan, Evan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION; COMPETITION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

DIGITAL DIVIDES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 51449112249     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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