Caste structures and e-governance in a developing country

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5693 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 40-53

  De', Rahul ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

Caste; Development; E governance; India; Structuration; Technology

Indexed keywords

CASTE; DEVELOPMENT; E-GOVERNANCE; INDIA; STRUCTURATION;

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; RURAL AREAS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 70349331256     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03516-6_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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