Knowledge democracy and the implications to information access

Multicultural Education and Technology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-46

  Raza, Ahmad ^a   Murad, Hasan Sohaib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

E learning; Epistemology; Globalization; Information and communication technologies; Knowledge management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950227796     PISSN: 1750497X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17504970810867142     Document Type: Article

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