Content creation and dissemination by-and-for users in rural areas

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 56-65

  Agarwal, Sheetal K ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a   Nanavati, Amit Ani ^a   Rajput, Nitendra ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT CREATION; FIELD DEPLOYMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; INTERACTION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGE INFORMATION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING; USAGE PATTERNS; WORLD POPULATION;

RURAL AREAS;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951597006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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