The evolving braid: How an organization in Uganda achieved reliable communications

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 1 FULL PAPER, Issue , 2013, Pages 257-266

  Densmore, Melissa ^a   Bellows, Ben ^b   Chuang, John ^c   Brewer, Eric ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b POPULATION COUNCIL   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Braided communications; Communications; HCI4D; ICT4D; Mobile; SMS

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED COMMUNICATIONS; HCI4D; ICT4D; MOBILE; SMS;

COMMUNICATION; REINFORCEMENT; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84892904988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2516604.2516620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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