Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Information and Communication Technology in Brazil
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This special issue of the Journal do Community Informatics is about information and communication technology (ICT) in Brazil. The articles selected for this edition comprise an interesting and diversified sample of Brazilian studies and initiatives concerned with the effective contribution of ICT to societal processes in the country. The reader will encounter examples of well-established and large scale experiences, as well as recent and fast growing ones; articles that study large metropolises and others that focus small communities; a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches (qualitative and quantitative).
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تاریخ انتشار 2011