After access - Challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2603-2606

  Gitau, Shikoh ^a   Marsden, Gary ^a   Donner, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

developing world; hci4d; ict4d; mobile internet

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; CAPE TOWN , SOUTH AFRICA; DEVELOPING WORLD; IDENTITY MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SEARCH; INTERNET USE; INTERNET USERS; JOB SEARCH; MOBILE INTERNET; OFFLINE; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES;

INTERNET;

EID: 77953973116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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