Organizational, social and operational implications in delivering ICT solutions: A telecom web case-study

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Agarwal, Sheetal K ^a   Dhanesha, Ketki ^a   Jain, Anupam ^a   Kumar, Abhishek ^a   Menon, Srijit ^a   Rajput, Nitendra ^a   Srivastava, Kundan ^a   Srivastava, Saurabh ^a  

^a IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

Low literacy; Mobile phone; Organizational effect; Participatory design; Speech interfaces; Spoken web

Indexed keywords

LOW-LITERACY; ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; SPEECH INTERFACE; SPOKEN WEB;

MOBILE PHONES; RURAL AREAS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84867471841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2369220.2369222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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