Using affordable technology to decrease digital inequality: Results from Birmingham's One Laptop Per Child XO laptop project

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 424-444

  Cotten, Shelia R ^a   Hale, Timothy M ^a   Moroney, Michael Howell ^a   O'Neal, Latoya ^a   Borch, Casey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer use; Digital inequality; One laptop per child; XO laptops

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958221153     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2011.559266     Document Type: Article

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