ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF RURAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS: ANALYSIS OF PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 395-404

  Kanungo, Shivraj ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emancipation; Information system; sustainability

Indexed keywords

FOOD SUPPLY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; REGIONAL PLANNING;

CASE-STUDIES; DIGITAL DIVIDE; EMANCIPATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELATED FACTORS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOUTHERN INDIA;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85072145886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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