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: 5.PROSPECTS FOR MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN SUDAN

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

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:

5.PROSPECTS FOR MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN SUDAN

5. PROSPECTS FOR MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN SUDAN

Sudanese Librarians and Information Scientists in different workshops lamented the inability of Sudanese libraries to obtain information about publishing in Sudan. Sudanese libraries need to have closer interaction with developing countries by way of information sharing for our mutual benefit. We are aware of the new technologies and their application to library processes as explained by Cochrane (1992) and Henderson (1992). There is an urgent need for us to begin to exploit these facilities otherwise the rest of the world would leave us behind. It is a fact that it is costly but neglecting to take advantage of them would cost us more. Each of our libraries must begin to use them and build up gradually to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of information collection, processing, storage, dissemination and preservation. Indeed, any meaningful co-operation would depend on the use of these facilities. In Sudan, we determine that it is "forward ever and backward never" for librarianship and libraries in Sudan. Indeed, there are high prospects of modern information management by Sudanese libraries in the 21st Century. Such prospects are predicated on several factors, including: