Designing IT systems for NGOs: Issues and directions

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 19, Issue , 2008, Pages 560-565

  Saeed, Saqib ^a   Rohde, Markus ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community computing; IT support; NGOs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS;

COMMUNITY COMPUTING; IT ADOPTION; IT SUPPORTS; IT SYSTEM; NGOS; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 85025081066     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: 18650937     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87783-7_71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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