Kelsa+: Digital literacy for low-income office workers

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 150-162

  Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi ^a   Satpathy, Sambit ^b   Zia, Lilian ^c   Toyama, Kentaro ^a   Blagsvedt, Sean ^e   Pawar, Udai Singh ^a   Subramaniam, Thanuja ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

^e Microsoft ^*

Author keywords

Digital literacy; ICTD; Low income workers; Service staff; Urban poor

Indexed keywords

BANGALORE , INDIA; CAREER OPPORTUNITIES; IN-LINE; JOB OPPORTUNITIES; OFFICE FACILITY; OFFICE WORKERS; PILOT IMPLEMENTATION; SKILL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POOR;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

WAGES;

EID: 77951563821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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