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Development information management issues in Africa
(1994-02)
This paper attempts to address some of the major problems associated with the management of information systems and services in Africa. These problems hamper the smooth management of information systems and services for ...
Integration of geographical and statistical data Uganda census Atlas
(1995-05)
The success of the census depends not only on how well the Census Office locates alt living quarters and collects complete information for each occupant but also on how accurately this information is linked to its specific ...
Computer mediated communications and the need for infrastructure building in Africa
(1993-11)
Computer mediated communications and the need for infrastructure building in Africa, of the Eighth Session of Joint Conference
of African Planners, Statisticians,
Demographers and Information Scientists, held in Addis ...
Improved access to development information in Africa
(1996-03)
"Economic development in Africa will depend heavily on the development of the information sector. Countries will need the ability to communicate efficiently with local and overseas markets to determine where they may have ...
Building Africa's information highway
(1996-03)
Resolution 795, "Building African's Information Highway", of the thirtieth session of the ECA Conference of Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning, held in Addis Ababa in May 1995, requested ...
Review of the terms of reference of the joint conference of African planners, statisticians and demographers
(1994-02)
The seventeenth session of ECA Conference of Ministers held in Tripoli, Libya in 1982 in its resolution 438 (XVII) had decided to include information scientists within the Joint Conference of African Statisticians, Planners ...
Improving quality of statistical data through training
(1995-05)
This paper discusses the concept of quality of statistics, quality control of errors in statistics and improvement of quality of statistics through training. A brief description of a regional programme for training statistical ...
Need for data that ignore boundries : migration and transient population movements
(1995-05)
This paper presents the case for the need for spatial mobility data that ignore boundaries, national and international. It also reviews strategies to achieve these objectives. In this connection, it is pertinent to note ...
Building Africa's information highway
(1996)
This paper focuses on building Africa’s information highway. This document outlines an action plan for an African Information and Communication Initiative (AICI) which proposes a framework for societal transformation to ...
Prospects for information technology in Africa
(1996-03)
Access to information and communications technologies is becoming increasingly critical for African community's participation in economic and political life at national, international and global levels1. Advances in ...