Preliminary survey of African needs and facilities for technology information.

Abstract

This report is preliminary and uses gleanings from the results of three .African survey missions-which took place in 1977 concerning technology transfer and. information and the Library of the Economic .Commission for .Africa. The third mission is still underway. Countries which were 'or- -will be visited are Algeria, Egypt, Kenya Madagascar, the Sudan, Rwanda, Somalia, the United Republic of Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, the Niger, Mali, Senegal, Zaire and Zambia. much of the material consists of condemnation of paragraphs writ ten by members of the survey mission teams with a view to emphasizing aspects related to existing facilities for applying technology information and the needs of potential users of technology A final report is expected later in 1977 when the third mission is completed