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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
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close this bookThe 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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View the document2. IT, ICTS AND TT CONCEPTS
View the document3. SUDANESE LIBRARIIES AND INFORMATION INSTITUTIONS:
Open this folder and view contents4. SUDANESE LIBRARIES CHALLENGES AND APPORTUNITIES
Open this folder and view contents5.PROSPECTS FOR MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION IN SUDAN
View the document6.MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT:
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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.