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Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 4

Pages 15 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/1121949.1121966

Published: 01 April 2006 Publication History

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The ability to form multi-organizational networks rapidly is crucial to humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and large urgent projects. Designing and implementing the network's conversation space is the central challenge.

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    1. Management of computing and information systems
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