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Engineering rural development

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Information systems enable rural development by increasing the accountability of nongovernmental organizations.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 1
Rural engineering development
January 2009
125 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1435417
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