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Information and Communication Technologies for Development: The Bottom of the Pyramid Model in Practice

Renee Kuriyan University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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Isha Ray University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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Kentaro Toyama Microsoft Research Lab India Private Limited, Bangalore, India
Pages 93-104 | Received 08 Mar 2007, Accepted 20 Sep 2007, Published online: 13 Mar 2008

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