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Building on underlying technologies of mobile services for post 2015 Ghana

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The Poster seeks to illustrate existing theories of building smart governments beyond 2015 with mobile technologies using Ghana in West Africa as a country case study.

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      ICEGOV '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
      October 2013
      398 pages
      ISBN:9781450324564
      DOI:10.1145/2591888
      • Editors:
      • Tomasz JANOWSKI,
      • Jeanne HOLM,
      • Elsa ESTEVEZ

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