Mobile commerce as a solution to the Global Digital Divide: Selected cases of E-Development

The Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 237-256

  Dholakia, Nikhilesh ^a   Kshetri, Nir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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