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More than 7 billion people populate the planet, and the UN (2012) projects that this number will rise to a staggering 9.4 billion or higher by 2050.

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    e.g. RDA’s AIS (Singh 2006).

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    e.g. RDA’s AIS (Singh 2006).

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    e.g. Kisan Call Centers (Kumar 2005), Tamil Market (Plauché and Prabaker 2006).

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    e.g. eChoupal (Singh 2006).

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    e.g. n-logue (Rao 2007).

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Steffen, D., Srinivasan, R. (2015). ICT-Applications to Align Global Resources with a Growing Population. In: Grand Societal Challenges in Information Systems Research and Education. SpringerBriefs in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15027-7_2

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