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Rectas: blazing the trail in capacity building for geoinformation production and management for sustainable management of land ,environment and natural resources in Africa
(2001-09)
The need for a Regional Cartographic Centre was first mooted at the 1st United Nations (UN) Cartographic Conference held in 1963 in Nairobi, Kenya. Consequently, the 8th Session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ...
The future orientation of geoinformation activities in Africa : an extended summary
(2001-05)
This study is part of coordinated activities by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to "raise awareness of African governments and other sectors of society on the importance of geographic information ...
Introduction to the library of the Southern African Development Community-SADC Secretariat
(2001-08)
Originally known as the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC), the Organization was formed in Lusaka, Zambia, on 1 April 1980, following the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration - Southern Africa: ...
Establishiment of a geographic database facility for Africa
(2001-08)
This paper focused on the establishment of a geographic database facility for Africa. The African regional facility shall lead African stakeholders in development of the African geospatial data infrastructure.
The use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in Zambia's education and health sectors : the leading role of the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Copperbelt University (CBU)
(2001-09)
This presentation is not a country report on the use and development of ICTs in Zambia. The paper only seeks to highlight some of the pioneering efforts still going on in the country in the use of ICTs in education and ...
Science and technology and competitiveness of natural resources in Africa : an issue paper
(2001)
The Conference of African Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development and Planning adopted Resolution No. 826 (XXXII) in April 1996, through which the Ministers structured new Organs to deal with overall ...
Rectas: Blazing the trail in capacity building for geoinformation production and management for sustainable management of land, Environment and natural resources in Africa
(2001-09)
The Centre was then known as the Regional Centre for Training in Aerial Surveys (RECTAS) until September 1987 when the name was changed to the Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys (RECTAS) with its scope ...
Knowledge management for decision-making : tools, institutions and paradigms
(2001-08)
This paper reviews the field and practice of knowledge management (KM) and elucidates KM's corporate, national and regional perspectives. It outlines policy implications for African development in the evolving globalised ...
Knowledge for decision making-some efforts from kerala : India
(2001-09)
The World Bank's annual development report, Knowledge for Development (1998), also stressed the importance of leveraging new media technologies like the Internet in developing countries for areas like lifelong learning, ...
Harnessing: information, knowledge and intelligence for development and decision making
(2001-09)
Information considered not as a product but as a factor of the use made of it and the way it fits into decision making may be defined as follows: information is an actual or potential action which must be processed and ...