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ICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment

6th IFIP World Information Technology Forum, WITFOR 2016, San José, Costa Rica, September 12-14, 2016, Proceedings

Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 481)

Conference series link(s): WITFOR: IFIP World Information Technology Forum

Conference proceedings info: WITFOR 2016.

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Environment and Sustainable Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Principles for Re-Designing Information Systems for Environmental Sustainability

      • Richard Baskerville, Jan Pries-Heje, Jan Recker
      Pages 14-25
    3. Automated Plant Species Identification: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Erick Mata-Montero, Jose Carranza-Rojas
      Pages 26-36
  3. Digital Equity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Progressing Toward Digital Equity

      • Ramon Puigjaner
      Pages 109-120
    3. Telecenters for the Future in Tea Estates of Sri Lanka

      • Sirkku Männikkö-Barbutiu, Thomas Westin, Ranil Peiris, Peter Mozelius
      Pages 121-131
    4. Mobile Internet Tariff Models: Technical or Political Decisions? A Costa Rican Case Study

      • Alexander Castro-Reyes, Gabriela Marín-Raventós
      Pages 132-143
    5. guifi.net: A Bottom-up Initiative for Building Free Telecommunication Infrastructure

      • Miguel Pérez, Pablo Boronat, José A. Gil, Ana Pont
      Pages 144-155
  4. Gender

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP World Information Technology Forum, WITFOR 2016, San José, Costa Rica, in September 2016. 

The 16 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. Within the general theme ICT for Promoting Human Development and Protecting the Environment the papers are organized in the following topical sections encompassing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently adopted by the United Nations: ICT and cross-cutting development issues; ICT and environmental problems: ICT and human development problems; and ICT and economic development problems.










Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidad Nacional , Heredia, Costa Rica

    Francisco J. Mata

  • Universitat Politècnica de València , Valencia, Spain

    Ana Pont

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