Speech Interfaces for Equitable Access to Information Technology
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Equitable access to scientific and technical information for health.
1 Editor, Bulletin. Hippocrates equated scientific truth with mystical knowledge which should be revealed only to the initiated (1). In current thinking, however, scientific and technical information is seen as an archetypal global public good which should be freely available for the benefit of all (2). With traditional printed publication, the wide dissemination of this information through aca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Information Technologies and International Development
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1544-7529,1544-7537
DOI: 10.1162/itid.2007.4.1.69