Addressing Animal Health Knowledge Gaps in Southern Countries: The Creation of a 2D Animal Health Resource Room

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-27

  Lin, Yibo ^a   Heffernan, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal Health; Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Knowledge Dissemination; Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249169322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2009.tb00280.x     Document Type: Article

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