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Download full textRobredo, Jaime; And Others – 1989
For over 30 years the installation of information systems has been promoted in developing nations by international organizations and international consultancies in order to transfer technical expertise from the industrialized countries to the Third World. While some have questioned the value of indiscriminately transferring scientific and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Information Networks, Information Technology
Tang, Donna Taxco – 1991
As an American Library Association/USIA International Library Fellow in Argentina from March to September 1989, the author worked with the Argentine National Protective Commission for People's Libraries. Included in her assignment was a charge "to assist in the development of a popular libraries network in Patagonia," the southernmost…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Information Management
Dosa, Marta – 1988
This paper was jointly sponsored by the Center for the Study of Citizenship of the Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship and the Kellogg Project, a 5-year research project in Syracuse University's School of Education which is intended to provide not only physical access to information resources for adult educators through optical disk…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Education, Computer Networks, Developing Nations
Emerson, Susan Vince; And Others – 1991
Third World libraries, as a rule, receive information technology, technical assistance, and training as part of international development projects. Library improvements and their intended objective, information transfer, are more effective and lasting if key administrative and policy issues are addressed by the projects. Critical success factors…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Developing Nations, Human Resources, Information Technology
Peer reviewedRodriguez, Ketty – Electronic Library, 1994
Considers barriers which inhibit the development of information technology in Latin America and the Caribbean. Highlights include research in science and technology; the publishing industry; information transfer; indigenous database development; and options for developing countries, including national information policies, computer education, and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Technology
Peer reviewedSurprenant, Thomas T. – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Identifies problems and trends in international information and communication policies by examining the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO), World Administrative Radio Conference (WARC), and Transborder Data Flow (TBDF). Future trends are discussed, proposed policy objectives for the United States are considered, and 59…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Nadirova, Goulnar – 2000
Cultural development of modern countries in the East, including the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a complicated and contradictory process, where common cultural ways were shaped differently and specifically in the countries. Common historical fate has influenced this development and given these countries some common problems, but there is some…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Education, Communications, Cultural Differences
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
