Emerging economies, emerging challenges: Mobilising and capturing value from big data

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 110, Issue , 2016, Pages 167-174

  Amankwah Amoah, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Ebola; Governments; Technology; Technology roadmapping

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DISEASES; TECHNOLOGY;

DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; EBOLA; GOVERNMENTS; INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES; TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPPING; VARIOUS TECHNOLOGIES;

BIG DATA;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; MOBILIZATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; STATE ROLE; SURVEILLANCE AND ENFORCEMENT; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VIRAL DISEASE;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 84992310856     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.10.022     Document Type: Article

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