Development as free software: Extendingcommons based peer production to the south;Etendre la production communautaire par les pairs vers les pays du sud

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Staring, Knut ^a   Titlestad, Ola Hodne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Action research; Developing countries; OSS FLOSS; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; COMMONS-BASED PEER PRODUCTION; DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT; FREE SOFTWARE; GLOBAL NETWORKS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OSS/FLOSS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; PEER PRODUCTION; SOFTWARE PRODUCTION; USER PARTICIPATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; TOPOLOGY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870966674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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