This paper reviews the issues facing African countries in adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance governance in four areas, reducing poverty, providing basic human needs, improving public ...

In late 1906 the first of several commercially owned and operated, very high resolution, digital each observing satellite systems will be launched into polar orbit. This event initiates a new era of commercial each observation ...

This document present issue of Focus on African Industry surveys the issues pertaining to privatization and the role that governments should remain with the process of industrialization. In to the 21st century. To situate ...

This document focused on the Regional Plan of Action was formulated within the framework of the mid-decade review of the Implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action. That review was conducted through the ...

By resolution 40/33 of 29 November 1985, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations standard Minimum Rules for the Administration Of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules"). The resolution urges all ...

The concept of participatory development has an established history with grassroots community groups. The tenet of participation is to assist beneficiaries undertake their own self-help initiatives, which is viewed as a ...

CNIG is a consultative authority to the French Ministry of Equipment whose aim is to co-ordinate various producers' activities, have them concert with users and so develop geographic information within public and private ...

Over centuries a cadastral system, based on the graphic representation of each piece of land and the title deed describing the rights in this piece of land, has been developed and maintained in the Republic of South Africa. ...

The purpose of the workshop was to assess the transition from relief to development and discuss the role of the international and indigenous nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in providing humanitarian assistance to the ...

This paper has been prepared for the Food Security and Sustainable Development Division by a visiting scholar. Mr. Linsu Kim. This paper first presents four analytical frameworks - technological trajectory, technology ...