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- This paper begins by profiling the key elements of the RASCOM study and their implications for the socioeconomic development of Africa. It then analyzes the traditional arguments in the debate about the role of the new Information and communication technologies in African development. Arguing for a regional approach to telecommunication infrastructural development, the paper examines SADCC's experience and concludes by offering a framework within which strategies can be mapped out for an integrated information and communication technologies development.
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- The protection of the environment is a matter of global concern that calls for global measures. Improved and effective information about the environment and communication within the globe is vital because it broadens public awareness and participation in the debate on environmental challenges facing human kind today. And the upsurge of electronic networking through computers which is generally called the information superhighway appears to be a development that can precisely address this need. However, as more and more environmental information on a global scale continues to be stored and controlled electronically, developing countries risk becoming more marginalized within the rapidly evolving world economy due to lack of computers and low levels of computer literacy among the majority of their population. The question is: what are the likely consequences of this situation bearing in mind the understanding that environmental degradation does not affect Africa only or but the whole globe?. This paper gives a situational analysis of the information superhighway in Africa and suggests policy issues which need to be addressed both internationally and regionally if the expectations environmental communication are to be realized.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- This paper discusses the African journalists' perception of the new world Information order, seeking to find out what changes they expect from it. The paper attempts to identify the positions taken by various journalists on the issue pertaining to this controversy. Basing his opinion on the results of a survey conducted in Nigeria, the author concludes that this debate cannot be fruitfully carried on since there is little agreement on the meanings of the concepts employed by the disputants.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review