Pragmatic Fragility of Information Technology in Latin America: Case studies

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 554-563

  Salim, Ricardo ^a   Ferran, Carlos ^b  

^a Cautus Networks Corp   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

developing countries; digital divide; information systems; Information technology; information theory

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS;

CASE METHOD; CASE-STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; DIGITAL DIVIDE; LATIN AMERICA; LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS; PUBLIC INSTITUTION; VENEZUELA;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 84901565770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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