Policy Issues In Microcomputer Applications For Developing Countries

National Academy of Sciences

• Panel on Microcomputers for Developing Countries -- Introduction -- Overview -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Development-Assistance Policies and Strategies -- Microcomputers, Informatics, and Development: Issues in Foreign Assistance -- The Role of Computers and Informatics in Developing Countries: Issues and Policy -- Selected Donor-Agency Policies on Computers and Informatics in Third World Countries -- Information Technology in Development Projects: A New Role for Donor Assistance -- Developing-Country Experiences -- Microcomputers in the West African Region -- Obstacles to a Wider and More Efficient Use of Microcomputers in Tunisia and Suggested Remedies -- Computers and Education in Kenya: Problems and Prospects -- Microcomputers in Zimbabwe: Problems and Suggested Remedies -- Microcomputers in Egypt: Problems and Recommendations -- Microcomputers, Small Institutions, and Markets: The Case of Paraguay -- Bureaucratic Reform and Microcomputer Use in Indonesia's Ministry of Finance -- Technology Transfer and Development -- Development for Microcomputer Use by Individuals and "Communities": An Anthropologist's Perspective -- Engineering Considerations in Microcomputer Policy Issues for Developing Countries -- Microcomputers Throughout the University: A New Metaphor for Development -- Software-Industry Development in the Third World: Policy Guidelines, Institutional Options, and Constraints -- Copyright Responsibilities: Maintenance of Software Owned by International Development Organizations -- Acquisition and Management of Information Technology -- Microcomputer Acquisition in Developing Countries: Problems and Recommendations -- Social and Organizational Analysis in Automation Strategy and Planning -- Using Management Tools to Get the Most from Information Technology in Development -- Building Information-Management Systems for Developing Countries -- Microcomputer Implementations in the Least-Developed Countries: Some Policy Considerations -- Impact of Microcomputers on Health in the Third World -- Information Systems -- The Role of Scientific and Technological Information in the Development Process -- A New Opportunity in Development -- Corporations and Organizations Contacted Before Preparing This Proposal