Exploring the futures of mobiles for social development using ethnographic futures research

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Olla, Phillip ^a   Choudrie, Jyoti ^b  

^a MADONNA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EFR; Ethnographic futures research; Future research; M4SD; Mobile for social development; Mobile technology; P EFR; Participatory EFR; Research methods; Social development

Indexed keywords

EFR; M4SD; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; P-EFR; PARTICIPATORY EFR; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; RESEARCH;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84870966399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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