TY - JOUR
T1 - Information and communication technologies for development [Guest editors' introduction]
AU - Cáceres, Ramón
AU - Belding, Elizabeth
AU - Parikh, Tapan
AU - Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan
N1 - Funding Information:
Elizabeth Belding is a professor and the vice chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on mobile networking—specifically, multimedia, monitoring, advanced service support, and solutions for developing and underdeveloped regions. She is the founder and director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory. Belding is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and is the recipient of an NSF Career Award and a 2002 MIT Technology Review 100 award. Contact her at [email protected].
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) is an emerging field that focuses on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of innovative technologies for social and economic development. The ICTD research agenda is driven by a desire to bridge the digital divide and make computing useful to the significant fraction of the world's population that lives in underdeveloped areas with limited resources. The articles in this special issue address a number of ICTD themes.
AB - Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) is an emerging field that focuses on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of innovative technologies for social and economic development. The ICTD research agenda is driven by a desire to bridge the digital divide and make computing useful to the significant fraction of the world's population that lives in underdeveloped areas with limited resources. The articles in this special issue address a number of ICTD themes.
KW - ICTD
KW - Information and Communication Technologies for Development
KW - communication
KW - pervasive computing
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U2 - 10.1109/MPRV.2012.46
DO - 10.1109/MPRV.2012.46
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84863523587
SN - 1536-1268
VL - 11
SP - 12
EP - 14
JO - IEEE Pervasive Computing
JF - IEEE Pervasive Computing
IS - 3
M1 - 6228596
ER -