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The ABCs of effectiveness in the digital society

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Digital effectiveness is not the same as mastering the ICTs, rather it is the art of using them in a purposeful, healthy way.

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 7
          July 2018
          90 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3234519
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