Title :
Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Author :
Toyama, Kentaro ; Dias, M. Bernardine
Author_Institution :
Microsoft Research India
fDate :
6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
ICTD has become a truly global undertaking, bringing together north and south, rich and poor, rural and urban, researcher and practitioner, technologist and social scientist—all striving to work toward a better life for the least privileged.
Keywords :
Communications technology; Computers; Educational institutions; Explosions; Information technology; Internet; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Planets; Power generation economics; ICT; ICTD; computing and society; information and communication technologies for development; interdisciplinary science; mobile computing; socioeconomics of computing;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2008.193