African Information Society Initiative (AISI) : opportunities and challenges for Africa's libraries

Abstract

The progress towards this development has indeed caused many an eyebrow to be raised and many have countered developments in informatics in Africa by pointing out that Africa's information infrastructure is by far the least developed in the world. Technical statistics consistently shows that Africans have the smallest number of telephone lines per capita, the most restricted access to computer equipment, the most primitive information networks, and the most inaccessible media systems.