Requirements of a mobile procurement framework for rural South Africa

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Mobility '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dörflinger, Jörg ^a   Friedland, Carsten ^a   Merz, Christian ^a   De Louw, Rudi ^b  

^a SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b CEC Pretoria   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ICT4D; Mobile application; Mobile procurement; Next billion

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESS; COPY-AND-PASTE; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; DEVELOPING WORLD; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EMERGING ECONOMIES; END USERS; LIVING LAB; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE SOLUTIONS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE USERS; MOBILE-PHONE USERS; PROCUREMENT PROCESS; SOUTH AFRICA;

COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

RURAL AREAS;

EID: 77950901274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1710035.1710038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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