Bridge Builders African Experiences With Information and Communication Technology
This volume tells 16 remarkable stories-first person accounts of how information and communication technologies have been successfully introduced into institutions for the benefit of scientists and engineers in sub-Saharan Africa. These case studies focus on the lessons learned in designing and impl...
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Washington, D.C
National Academies Press
07.01.2000
National Academy Press |
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- Leased Line Costs -- National Infrastructure and Political Constraints -- RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Reduced Communication Costs -- Improved Training Options -- Introduction -- Site configuration and training -- Ongoing assistance -- Workshop -- Improved Skills -- Improved Access from Rural Areas -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- Lesson 1 -- Lesson 2 -- Lesson 3 -- Lesson 4 -- Lesson 5 -- Lesson 6 -- Lesson 7 -- Lesson 8 -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Networking in West Africa -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- Fidonet-A Grassroots Network -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- How Users are Trained -- Development of the Network and Perspectives -- Connecting Problems -- Regional Networking -- Methodology for Sensitizing -- Difficulties in Sensitizing -- RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Background Summary SatelLife and HealthNet -- MUKLA: Evolution of a Homegrown Network in Uganda -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- The ESANET Project -- Activities of ESANET -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- The Critical Years -- Project Synergy -- Challenges -- Present Situation -- Recent Developments -- RESULTS, IMPACTS, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Beyond Email -- Sectoral Involvement -- University -- Non-Governmental Organizations -- Government -- Business Sector -- Others -- Finance -- Results -- Hardware -- Software -- Connectivity -- User Base -- Network Management -- Research and Development -- Beyond the ESANET Project: Future Developments at MUKLA -- New Nodes -- Goals of Expansion -- Improved Services -- Future Needs and Possibilities -- Regional Interconnectivity -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- User Friendliness
- A Breakdown of the Users
- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- Background Information on Tanzania -- Institutional Information -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- Origin and History of DTP at COSTECH -- General and Particular Objectives of DTP at COSTECH -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- THE RESULTS, IMPACTS, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Environmental Publishing Network-ENVIRONET at ICIPE Science Press -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- Participating Institutions -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- Opportunities -- Threats -- THE RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Benefits of the Project -- The University Students Attachment Programme (USAP) -- Operation -- USAP Benefits -- The USAP Alumni -- Future Prospects: The USAP Resource Centre (URC) -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- Training Organization -- Finances, Trainee Per Diem, and Travel -- Organization -- ENVIRONET - Training Objectives -- Advocacy -- Electronic Publishing -- Evaluation -- Author's Roster -- Publications -- ENVIRONET Phase II -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Innovations in Desktop Publishing at the African Academy of Sciences, 1989-1992 -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Departure of Professor Isoun -- The Peer Review Process at the AAS -- Other Publications -- RESULTS, IMPACTS, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Case Studies on Electronic Networking -- Electronic Networking for the Research Community in Ethopia -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- The Current STI Environment in Ethiopia -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION
- Communications for Better Health Project in Zambia -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- About Zambia -- The University of Zambia (UNZA) -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- CD-ROM Databases -- Zambia Health Information Digest (ZHID) -- THE RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- Library Partnership Program -- HealthNet News -- Literature Searches -- The HealthNet Communication Service -- Access to Health Information Databases -- Access to the ZAMNET Gopher -- Access to Other Databases -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTE -- Case Studies on Desktop Publishing -- Desktop Publishing at the University of Zimbabwe -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- Historical Background -- Education in Zimbabwe -- Book Production in Zimbabwe -- Information Technology in Zimbabwe -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- Origin and History -- Products, Technologies, and Services Delivered -- The Hardware -- The Software -- PageMaker -- MathEdit -- DERIVE, Version 2 -- Fractool -- CSS -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- The Newsletter -- The DTP Software -- The Layout of the Newsletter -- The Scanner -- The Reprographic Facility -- RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Benefits -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- Training of DTP Operator -- Training of Academic Users -- The Hardware -- The Need for a Network -- The Laser Printer -- Flat Bed Scanner -- Upgrading the Software -- Reprographics by Copy Printer -- The Photographic Library -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Conclusions and Plans for Future Development -- Recommendations -- The Newsletter -- Training -- Personnel for the Newsletter -- Planned and Regular Upgrading of Hardware and Software -- Printer and Collator -- Color Presentations -- Networking -- Desktop Publishing at the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
- Adherence to Standards -- Promotion and Education -- Training -- Product Champions -- Adequate Funding -- Appropriate Ownership Patterns -- Plans for Financial Sustainability -- Managerial, Sales and Technical Expertise-in that order! -- APPENDIX-INTERNET/EMAIL PROVIDERS IN UGANDA -- The UNIMA Fidonet Network: Computer Networking for Communications in Malawi -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- UNIMA Network Operation -- RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Network Performance -- Cost of the Service -- Billing Users -- Failure Rates -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- Network Use -- Growing the Internet -- Equipment Shortages -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- Background Summary A Global Computer Network for Change -- Dial Locally, Act Globally -- Bringing the Internet to Zambia -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- Computer Skills in Zambia -- The University of Zambia -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- The Early Technology -- UNZANET'S Traditional Users -- UNZANET'S Free Service -- The Need for ZAMNET -- The ZAMNET Proposal -- The Budget -- The Proposed Service -- The Project Objectives -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Establishing the Link to the Internet -- Procuring, Installing, and Configuring the Internet Hardware -- The Mail Server -- The Router -- Providing Customer Access -- Provisions of End User Software -- Software for DOS -- Software for Windows -- Software for Macs -- Integration of Fidonet and the Internet -- Development of Local Information Services -- The Zamnet Gopher -- The Worldwide Web Server -- Provision of Training Facilities and Courses -- User Documentation -- Computerized Accounting -- Determining a Pricing System -- Marketing of the Product -- Staff Recruitment -- RESULTS, IMPACT AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT
- BRIDGE BUILDERS -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- BACKGROUND -- THE EDITORIAL AND SELECTION PROCESSES -- THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) SCENE IN AFRICA -- LESSONS LEARNED IN THE CASE STUDIES -- CD-ROM -- DESKTOP PUBLISHING -- ELECTRONIC NETWORKING -- COLLECTION, MANAGEMENT, AND DISSEMINATION OF LOCAL INFORMATION RESOURCES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Case Studies on the Introduction of CD-ROM to University Libraries -- The CD-ROM Service for the University of Dar es Salaam -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY FOR THE CD-ROM SERVICES -- OUTREACH ACTIVITIES -- RESULTS, IMPACT, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Training -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- CD-ROM for Health Information in Zimbabwe -- BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT -- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- PROJECT EXPERIENCE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Hardware -- Delays -- RESULTS, IMPACTS, AND BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- Numbers of MEDLINE Searches Made -- Categories of Search Requesters -- Purpose of Searches -- Survey on the Use of MEDLINE and Its Abstracts -- Training in MEDLINE Searching -- Availability of Full-text Articles -- Immediate and Long-term Outcomes of the Service: Products and Spinoffs -- Searches -- Journal Selection -- Abstracts -- Outcomes for Health Professionals, Patients? -- Promotion of the CD-ROM Literature Search Service -- Other Uses of Microcomputers in the Medical Library -- A Database of Local Health Literature -- Email: Local and International Access to Information -- The Impact of Microcomputer Technologies on Library Staff -- ANALYSIS OF LESSONS LEARNED -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- NOTES -- Background Summary The African Index Medicus (AIM) Project