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Designing ICT interventions for women in Pakistan

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                      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 11
                      November 2019
                      136 pages
                      ISSN:0001-0782
                      EISSN:1557-7317
                      DOI:10.1145/3368886
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