The Sixth Scientific Conference On TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FOR DEVELOPMENT, Khartoum, 8-10 April 2003: Establishing Basic Levels of Technology Transfer for :Sudan Documentation and Library Services:Challenges and Opportunities /By: Rafaa Ashamallah Ghobrial
 
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 | The Sixth Scientific Conference On TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FOR DEVELOPMENT, Khartoum, 8-10 April 2003: Establishing Basic Levels of Technology Transfer for :Sudan Documentation and Library Services:Challenges and Opportunities /By: Rafaa Ashamallah Ghobrial |
 |  | ABSTRACT: |
| | 2. IT, ICTS AND TT CONCEPTS |
| | 3. SUDANESE LIBRARIIES AND INFORMATION INSTITUTIONS: |
|  | 4. SUDANESE LIBRARIES CHALLENGES AND APPORTUNITIES |
| | 4-1 Power Sources |
| | 4-2. Information Technology: |
| | 4-3. Automated information services: |
| | 4-4. Sustenance of electronic Publishing: |
| | 4-5. Information networks and Internet Connectivity Projected Sudan to the World: |
| | 5.PROSPECTS FOR MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN SUDAN |
| | 5-1. Improved Economy of Sudan |
| | 5-2. Improved Information and Communication Infrastructure |
| | 5-2-1 Telecommunications |
| | 5-2-1-1 Mobile cellular networks: |
| | 5-2-2 Informatics: |
| | 5-3. Progress in IT Application in Sudan: |
| | 6.MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT: |
| | 7. CONCLUSION: |
| | 8. REFERENCES: |
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7. CONCLUSION:
7. CONCLUSION
Information
for the development of any nation can be both indigenous and international.
For Sudan to harness information from local and external sources, the
application of modern information technologies management techniques is a sine
qua non. The librarianship profession in Sudan has not been lacking in the
knowledge of the right steps to take in managing technology transfer in
information sector for development. It has had to battle with very
unfavourable climate of information provision and management, a climate that
must improve to give way to progress in the New Millennium.
Sudan has much to offer to the world just as
the world has much to offer to Sudan. One therefore expects Sudanese libraries
and Information Institutions in the 21st Century to do more in
developing information infrastructure and institutions. It is interesting to
note that the United Nations and World bank are greatly concerned about the
wide disparity in access to basic communication and information services
between the developed and the developing world. In a statement issued by its
Administrative Committee on Coordination in 1997 (United Nation, 1998), they
laments that the information technology gap and related inequities between
industrialized and developing nations are widening and that a new type of
poverty, information poverty looms. The statement therefore commits the
organizations of the United Nations to assist developing countries in
redressing the present alarming trends. We hope that the UN''s statement will
be matched with positive action so that Sudan will be empowered to become
active participants in the new world information order.
As development issues, especially science and
technology are international, there is need for Sudan to access and utilize
information for development, no matter the format, no matter the source. The
challenge to do this is much for libraries in Sudan and their sponsors as
indeed, it is for governments and stakeholders outside Sudan.
