Digital doorways and the analysis of software application usage in ‘unassisted learning’ environments in impoverished South African communities

Keywords

Software, Geography, Computer science

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• Qualitative study on software application usage and user behaviour at South African Digital Doorway sitesKim Gush, M.R. De Villiers — 2011
• Software usage in unsupervised digital doorway computing environments in disadvantaged South African communities : focusing on youthful usersKim Gush, M.R. De Villiers — 2011
• A co-creation design framework to support elderly rural women in refining an ICT platformRonel Smith — 2019
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