Adoption of wireless internet parks: An empirical study in Qatar

Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Al Shafi, Shafi ^a   Weerakkody, Vishanth ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E government; IPark; Qatar; Technology acceptance model; Wireless internet

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; IPARK; QATAR; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; WIRELESS INTERNET;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; SECURITY OF DATA; SURVEYS;

PARKS;

EID: 84857563475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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