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Transforming opportunities for women entrepreneurs 为女企业家创造机会

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00003

J. Brodman, J. Berazneva

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引用次数: 15

Putting icts in the hands of the women of kanpur and the chikan embroidery workers of lucknow1 把信纸交给坎普尔的妇女和勒克瑙的赤坎刺绣工人

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00004

Chetan Sharma, Sarita K. Sharma, Ujjwala Subhedar

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引用次数: 12

Empowering women through ict-based business initiatives: An overview of best practices in e-commerce/e-retailing projects 通过基于信息通信技术的商业举措赋予妇女权力:电子商务/电子零售项目最佳实践概述

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00007

Sylvia Maier, Usha Nair-Reichert

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引用次数: 82

Women's empowerment and the information society 妇女赋权与信息社会

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2008.00002

Sylvia Maier

引用次数: 1

E-governance services through telecenters: The role of human intermediary and issues of trust 通过远程中心的电子政务服务:人类中介的作用和信任问题

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2007.4.1.19

K. G. Rajalekshmi

引用次数: 86

Commonsense net: A wireless sensor network for resource-poor agriculture in the semiarid areas of developing countries 常识网:为发展中国家半干旱地区资源贫乏的农业提供的无线传感器网络

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2007.4.1.51

Jacques Panchard, Seshagiri Rao, P. T. V., Jean-Pierre Hubaux, H. S. Jamadagni

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引用次数: 86

Speech interfaces for equitable access to information technology 公平获取信息技术的语音接口

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2007.4.1.69

Madeline Plauché, Udhyakumar Nallasamy

引用次数: 52

An introduction to the best ICTD 2006 conference papers 介绍2006年ICTD会议的最佳论文

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2007.4.1.1

K. Toyama, R. Reddy, A. Saxenian

引用次数: 3

Real synthetic scholarship 真正的综合奖学金

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2007.4.1.III

M. Best, E. J. Wilson

引用次数: 0

The livestock guru: The design and testing of a tool for knowledge transfer among the poor 畜牧大师:穷人之间知识转移工具的设计和测试

Information Technologies & International Development Pub Date : 2007-10-01 DOI: 10.1162/ITID.2007.4.1.113

C. Heffernan, L. Nielsen

引用次数: 17