Knowledge and attitude, the two major barriers to ICT adoption in LDC are the opposite side of a coin; An empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Imran, Ahmed ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude; ICT; IT knowledge; LDC; Mindset

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; ICT; IT KNOWLEDGE; LDC; MINDSET;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 78650760476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.284     Document Type: Conference Paper

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