ICT in developing context(s)

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hayes, Niall ^a   Westrup, Chris ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Developing countries; Information systems; Representation

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; DEVELOPMENT STUDY; MOBILE BANKINGS; REPRESENTATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES; SYSTEMS RESEARCH;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870965636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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