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Peer reviewedAlvarez, Jose; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1985
This paper highlights potential benefits and more pressing social and legal problems facing Latin American nations in the area of informatics and small computers. Discussion covers potential uses (education, office applications, agriculture, national planning); role of central governments; implications for economic development; and transborder…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Federal Government
Khosrowpour, Mehdi; Loch, Karen D. – 1993
This book provides insight into how countries around the world currently define their information science (IS) and information technology (IT) masters degree curriculum, and how they are responding to the challenge of internationalization. Global IT programs from both developed and developing countries are presented. Faculty and researchers are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Doctoral Programs
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1986
This document includes four papers on library school and other training aspects which were presented at the 1986 conference of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). In "Meeting the Challenge of the High Tech Information Age--The Recent Development of Library and Information Science Education in the People's Republic of…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Developing Nations, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedNoor, A. El Sayed – Computers and Education, 1984
Focuses on the benefits of model care curriculum development in computer-based information systems relevant to the needs of developing countries. Suggested procedures include outlining search rationale, examining existing curricula in developed nations, evaluating such education in Kuwait, presenting a model curriculum, comparing it with relevant…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Peer reviewedMaxwell, Nicholas – Science, Technology, and Human Values, 1992
Argues urgently of need for more rigorous type of academic, scientific inquiry that gives intellectual priority to the cooperative tasks of articulating environmental, societal, and global problems, rather than the pursuit of technological progress. Proposes that this new form of inquiry should have as its basic aim to improve not just knowledge…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Futures (of Society), Information Science, Inquiry
Didsbury, Howard F., Jr., Ed. – 1984
Designed for educational policymakers and researchers, this volume on global issues is divided into four sections. The four essays in the first section, "Reducing the Nuclear Peril," offer a brief documentary survey and then present practical suggestions and action plans to reduce the nuclear threat. The eight papers in the second…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computers, Developing Nations, Disarmament
