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Social Enterprises: A vocational entrepreneurship framework for street youth 社会企业:街头青年的职业创业框架

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426685

P. Javid, K. Toyama, M. Biswas

引用次数: 2

Rajnikant's laptop: Computers and development in popular Indian cinema Rajnikant的笔记本电脑:电脑和印度流行电影的发展

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426687

J. Pal

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引用次数: 6

A speech enabled Indian language text to Braille transliteration system 一次演讲使印度语文本能以盲文转写系统

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426698

Tirthankar Dasgupta, A. Basu

引用次数: 36

Results from a study of impact of e-government projects in India 电子政务项目在印度的影响研究结果

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426708

S. Bhatnagar, N. Singh

引用次数: 17

ICTD state of the union: Where have we reached and where are we headed ICTD的现状:我们已经到达了哪里，我们将走向哪里

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426693

Rabin K. Patra, J. Pal, S. Nedevschi

引用次数: 50

A new generation of open source data collection tools 新一代开源数据收集工具

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426732

Yaw Anokwa, Carl Hartung, Adam Lerer, B. DeRenzi, G. Borriello

引用次数: 5

Dimensions of IT literacy in an Arab region: A study in Barkha (Oman) 阿拉伯地区信息技术素养的维度:基于Barkha(阿曼)的研究

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426675

Sher Aziz

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引用次数: 2

Kelsa+: Digital literacy for low-income office workers Kelsa+:低收入上班族的数字素养

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426713

Aishwarya Ratan, Sambit Satpathy, L. Zia, K. Toyama, S. Blagsvedt, U. Pawar, Thanuja Subramaniam

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引用次数: 25

FOLKSOMAPS - towards community driven intelligent maps for developing regions FOLKSOMAPS——面向发展中地区的社区驱动智能地图

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426701

Arun Kumar, D. Chakraborty, Himanshu Chauhan, Sheetal K. Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput

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引用次数: 11

Challenges in health information systems integration: Zanzibar experience 卫生信息系统整合的挑战:桑给巴尔的经验

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) Pub Date : 2009-04-17 DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426679

Edwin Nyella

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引用次数: 31