Although e-medicine, just as with all information technology (IT), was developed and piloted in developed countries, it has not been successfully applied to address pressing medical problems in SSA (Mbarika & Okoli, 2003; Maher, et al., 2010). There is a lot of research that has been conducted in the last decade on telemedicine in sub-Saharan…

This article discusses how international and national understandings of information and communication technology (ICT) and the knowledge economy inform contemporary higher education policies. Acknowledging that national educational policies in Latin America are increasingly influenced by the recommendations of international organizations (e.g. the…

Analyzes Spain's Plan Electronico e Informatico Nacional (PEIN), which sets a governmental industrial policy for information technologies. Asserts that the process of forming a national policy and the projects approved under that policy is less concerned with decreasing foreign dependency, and more concerned with which groups would benefit most…

Examines the implications of technology transfer in the area of computer and communications technology to the Asian third world. Benefits of and deterrents to technology transfer are explored, and experiences are discussed on a country by country basis. (19 references) (Author/MES)

This journal special issue contains the following articles on the role of information and communications Technology (ICT) in development in the countries of the South: (1) "Digitally Empowered Development" (Allen L. Hammond); (2) "Global E-Commerce Policies Seen from the South" (Somkiat Tangkitvanich); (3) "Building…

Discussion of the diffusion of information technology focuses on telecommunications in developing countries, television systems, and personal computers. Examples and statistics from the United States and other countries are provided. (eight references) (MES)

Reviews technological developments of the last 18 years pertaining to the vocational education research responsibilities of networking and dissemination. Asserts that researchers should know about and evaluate emerging technologies in accessing, sharing, manipulating, and disseminating information for possible application to improve research…

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…

This study was performed to discern the feasibility of a Pan-African Network of Social Science Information and Documentation Centres and Services that would serve the regions covered by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic Commission for Western Asia (ECWA). This report on the study outlines the various forms networking can…

This report to the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives, provides an analysis of how advances in computer and telecommunications technology are significantly affecting the conduct of science. The introduction describes key developments in information technology, discusses their general impact, and highlights…

This paper reflects on a two-semester experiment using computer technologies in the university political science classroom. The instructor incorporated electronic mail (e-mail), the Internet, and an on-line conferencing program into the course requirements for an upper-division course on the Supreme Court and an introductory honors tutorial on…

This two-volume set contains 165 papers presented at a conference that brought together over 1,100 telecommunications leaders and leading commentators from over 40 countries across the Pacific region. The papers indicate that the optimism of the telecommunications industry is possibly greater than during the 1980s, although tempered by a more…

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…

This paper discusses services and technology offered to remote sites by the Curtin University of Technology (Australia) Library and Information Service. The following topics are covered: (1) imperatives driving the library to reticulate scholarly electronic information services to clients wherever they are, including the growth of distance…

Nine papers from the 1988 CAUSE conference's Track II, Managing Technologies Integration, are presented. They include: "Computing in the '90s--Will We Be Ready for the Applications Needed?" (Stephen Patrick); "Glasnost, The Era of 'Openness'" (Bernard W. Gleason); "Academic and Administrative Computing: Are They Really…