Organizing the unorganized - employing IT to empower the under-privileged

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 935-944

  Kumar, Arun ^a   Rajput, Nitendra ^a   Agarwal, Sheetal ^a   Chakraborty, Dipanjan ^a   Nanavati, Amit Anil ^a  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Developing regions; Virtual communities; Voice applications

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INTERNET; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BUSINESS SEGMENTS; CONVENIENT ALTERNATIVES; CURRENT MODELS; DEVELOPING REGIONS; HIGH RESPONSES; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; IT SOLUTIONS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES; VOICE APPLICATIONS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57349135688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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