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Acacia An Information Policy Handbook for Southern Africa
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ICT Resources Tina James
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1998-2005 Neil Butcher, Tracy Cohen, Daniel Espitia, Anriette
002294 ICT Esterhuysen, Alison Gillwald,
Tina James, Michael Milazi, Jonathan Miller, Gordon
Information
Oyomno, Yokow Quansah,
Policy Handbook Claire Sibthorpe, Johannes Mowatshe Tselanyane,
Contacts Leo Van Audenhove, Kate Wild
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Geneviève Lefebvre
Michael Jensen, Nigel Motts, Seán Ó Siochrú
Kathleen Diga
Gideon Christian
Alexandra Eustache
Morenike Ladikpo
Table of Contents
Foreword by the IDRC
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Added: 2002-10-16 10:22
Modified: 2008-07-16 14:50 A Message from the South African Acacia Advisory Committee
Refreshed: 2008-10-16 11:38
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Credits
2.1 Information Policy Trends within SADC: An Assessment of the Status Quo
2.1.2 The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
2.1.3 National Information and Communications Infrastructure (NICI) Initiatives
2.2 Problems and Issues Emerging from the Southern African Experience - What
Lessons Can We Learn?
3.1 Introduction
3.3.1 Broadcasting
3.3.2 The Reconstruction and Development Programme and ICTs
3.7 Problems and Issues Emerging from the South African Experience - What Lessons
Can We Learn ?
4.1 Introduction
4.7 Conclusion
5.1 Background
5.2 Definitions
6. Conclusions
6.2 Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 10: The South African National Qualifications Framework and the
Development of ICT
Appendix 11: ICT Research Priorities for the South African National Research
Foundation
Appendix 15: Survey of International and African ICT Policy and Research Institutions
List of Tables
Table 2: Overview of Internet Usage and International Bandwidth for Southern African
Countries (Jensen, 2001)
Table 5: Global Increase in Infrastructure for 1991-1996 and Forecast for 2001
Table 6: Infrastructure Growth and Access per 1 000 people for High-income Countries
(HIC) and for Low and Middle-income Countries (LMIC) 1990-1998 (Source: World
Bank)
List of Figures
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1.1 - Fig. 1: Rowlands' three hierarchical levels for information policy
Document(s)
Part 4.3 - What Policies Affect the Use of ICTs in Education ? 2001
Part 7 - Appendix 11: ICT Research Priorities for the South African National
Research Foundation 2001
Part 2.1- Information Policy Trends within SADC: An Assessment of the Status
Quo 2001
Part 2.2 - Problems and Issues Emerging from the Southern African
Experience - What Lessons Can We Learn ? 2001
Part 7 - Appendix 15: Survey of International and African ICT Policy and
Research Institutions, August 2000 2001
Part 6.1 - Emerging Lessons for Policy Development in Southern Africa 2001
Part 3.6 - The Evaluation and Policy Reformulation Period: 2000 - present 2001
Part 3.7 - Problems and Issues Emerging from the South African Experience -
What Lessons Can We Learn ? 2001
Part 4.2 - Where Technologies Can Most Effectively Support Education 2001
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