Welfare, agency and "let for development"

2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi ^a   Bailur, Savita ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"LeT for development"; Capability; Social choice; Telecentres

Indexed keywords

''LET FOR DEVELOPMENT''; CAPABILITY; SIMPLE MODEL; SOCIAL CHOICE; SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY; TELECENTRES;

EID: 67650554487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937398     Document Type: Conference Paper

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