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Information and Communication Technologies for Development: The Bottom of the Pyramid Model in Practice
The currently influential model for information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) is based on increasing the well-being of the poor through market-based solutions, and by using low-cost but advanced technologies. Using ethnographic methods, we chart out the contradictions that c...
| Main Author: | Renee Kuriyan and Isha Ray Kentaro Toyama |
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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The Information Society, 24: 93-104, 2008
2008
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/004023.pdf |
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