ICT and development: East is East and West is West and the Twain may yet meet

The Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 63-82

  Soeftestad, Lars T ^a   Sein, Maung K ^b  

^a Supras Consult   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

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