Mobile divides: Gender, socioeconomic status, and mobile phone use in rwanda

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Blumenstock, Joshua ^a   Eagle, Nathan ^b  

^a UC Berkeley School of Information   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Call detail records; CDR; ICTD; Mobile phones; Phone survey; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

CALL DETAIL RECORDS; CDR; FIELD SURVEYS; GENERAL POPULATION; ICTD; MOBILE OPERATORS; MOBILE PHONE OPERATORS; RWANDA; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SURVEY DATA; TRANSACTION LOG; USE AND ACCESS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE PHONES; SURVEYS; TELEPHONE SETS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84867474765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2369220.2369225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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