How computer science serves the developing world

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 74-80

  Dias, M Bernardine ^a   Brewer, Eric ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC MODELS; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; GOVERNMENTAL POLICIES; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MARKETING STRATEGY; POSITIVE EFFECTS; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; ROBOTIC TOOLS; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SOCIAL SCIENTISTS;

ECONOMICS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MARKETING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 67449087172     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1516046.1516064     Document Type: Review

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