VillageShare: Facilitating content generation and sharing in rural networks

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, DEV 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Johnson, David L ^a   Pejovic, Veljko ^a   Belding, Elizabeth M ^a   Van Stam, Gertjan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Linknet ^*  (Zambia)

Author keywords

developing regions; localization; rural network; social network; traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGIONS; LOCALIZATION; RURAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INTERNET; RURAL AREAS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 84889743221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2160601.2160611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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