Towards a design model for women's empowerment in the developing world

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2867-2876

  Shroff, Geeta ^a   Kam, Matthew ^a  

^a Human Development Lab ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Design for inclusion; Developing countries; Digital divide; Gender; HCI4D; ICT4D; Women empowerment

Indexed keywords

CO-DESIGNS; DESIGN FOR INCLUSION; DESIGN MODELS; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIGITAL DIVIDE; GENDER; HCI4D; ICT4D; PULITZER PRIZE; WOMEN EMPOWERMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 79958096149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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