Mobile-banking adoption and usage by low-literate, low-income users in the developing world

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

Volumn 5623 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 485-494

  Medhi, Indrani ^a   Ratan, Aishwarya ^a   Toyama, Kentaro ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic development; Financial inclusion; M banking; Mobile UX

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EASE OF USE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FINANCIAL SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD TYPES; M-BANKING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; POPULATION STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 76649100075     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02767-3_54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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