Contribution of Mobile Phones to Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-15

  Sife, Alfred Said ^a   Kiondo, Elizabeth ^b   Lyimo Macha, Joyce G ^a  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

information and communication technologies; mobile phones; poverty reduction; rural livelihoods; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 85153174721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16814835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2010.tb00299.x     Document Type: Article

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