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A Tanzanian Perspective of the Technical Aspects of IT Service Management Education
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Kemppainen, Jyri; Tedre, Matti; Sutinen, Erkki – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
Information technology (IT) professionals face markedly different kinds of challenges in developing countries from the ones in developed countries. Based on the research literature and our fourteen years of fieldwork in Iringa, Tanzania, we have identified eight groups of technical characteristics of IT work that significantly affect the work of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Engineering Education, Work Environment
The Electronic Publishing Revolution Is Not "Global."
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Jacobson, Thomas L. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
This article assesses the state of electronic publishing outside the realm of the industrialized West. Topics include global information disparities in number of databases, telecommunications infrastructure, telephone service, and computer networks; recent projects by nongovernmental organizations; and remaining challenges, including costs, lack…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Costs, Databases, Developing Nations
Information Technologies in Teacher Education. Issues and Experiences for Countries in Transition. Proceedings of a European Workshop, University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands, February 20-23, 1994).
Collis, Betty, Ed.; And Others – 1995
This document contains 21 papers from an international workshop designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas concerning the use of information technology in teacher education among experts from Central, Eastern, and Western Europe. The papers include: (1) "Communication and Information Technologies as Change Agents" (Jef Moonen); (2)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Developing Nations