Overcoming poverty through digital inclusion

IT Professional

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 6-10

  Figueiredo, Marco ^a   Prado, Paola ^b   Kramer, Mark ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

digital divide; digital inclusion; emerging markets; ICT4D; information technology; personal computer; symbiotic computer

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DIGITAL DIVIDE; DIGITAL INCLUSION; EMERGING MARKETS; ICT4D;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 84861730296     PISSN: 15209202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MITP.2012.57     Document Type: Article

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