Does the internet deserve everybody?

NS Ethics 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research, part of SIGCOMM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 5-8

  Elkhatib, Yehia ^a   Tyson, Gareth ^b   Sathiaseelan, Arjuna ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing regions; GAIA; ICT4D; Internet penetration

Indexed keywords

INTERNET;

DEVELOPING ECONOMIES; DEVELOPING REGIONS; EMERGING MARKETS; GAIA; ICT4D; INTERNET CONNECTIVITY; LIVING STANDARDS; SOCIAL STATUS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84960194407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2793013.2793018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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