Information technology and the dialectics of poverty in Africa

New Library World

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 253-262

  Wodi Jimba, Samuel ^a  

^a Office of the Executive Governor   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Africa; Information technology; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986065092     PISSN: 03074803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03074800010348714     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Akhtar, S. and Melesse, M. (1994), “Africa, information and development: IDRCs experience”, Journal of Information Science, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 314-22.
2. Baran, P. (1979), “On the political economy of backwardness”, in Wilber, G. (Ed.), The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 2nd ed., Random House, New York, NY, pp. 91-102.
3. Bell, D. (1973), The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, Basic Books, New York, NY.
4. Burch, J. and Grudnitski, G. (1986), Information Systems: Theory and Practice, 4th ed., Wiley, New York, NY.
5. Chartrand, R. (1982), “The role of government in the information society”, Journal of Information Science, Vol. 5 No. 4, pp. 145-7.
6. Clausen, H. (1990), “The future information professional: old wine in new bottles?”, Libri, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 265-77.
7. Demery, L. and Squire, L. (1996), “Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in Africa: an emerging picture”, The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 39-59.
8. Drucker, P. (1994), Post-capitalist Society, Wiley, New York, NY.
9. Frank, A. (1979), “The development of underdevelopment”, in Wilber, G. (Ed.). The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 2nd ed., Random House, New York, NY, pp. 103-13.
10. Griffin, H. (1979), “Underdevelopment in history”, in Wilber, G. (Ed.). The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment, 2nd ed., Random House, New York, NY, pp. 77-90.
11. Hountondji, P. (1995), “Producing knowledge in Africa”, African Studies Review, Vol. 38 No. 3, pp. 1-10.
12. Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1977), Manifesto of the Communist Party, English revised ed., Progress Publishers, Moscow.
13. Neelameghan, A. and Tocatlian, P. (1985), “International co-operation in information systems and services”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 36 No. 3, pp. 153-63.
14. Olden, A. (1987), “Sub-Saharan Africa and the paperless society”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 38, pp. 298-304.
15. PADIS (1987), “The perceived role of African universities in the implementation of the PADIS project in Africa”, Proceedings of the UNECA/PADIS Meeting for Vice-chancellors, 19-20 January, p. 5.
16. Philip, G. and Tsoi, S. (1988), “Regulation and deregulation of telecommunications: the economic and political realities”, Journal of Information Science, Vol. 14 No. 6, pp. 329-34.
17. Saracevic T. and Kantor, P. (1997), “Studying the value of library and information services”, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 48 No. 6, pp. 527-42.
18. Stoffle, C., Renand, R. and Veldof, J. (1996), “Choosing our futures”, College and Research Libraries, Vol. 57 No. 3, pp. 213-25.
19. Sturges, P. and Neill, R. (1990), The Quiet Struggle: Libraries and Information for Africa, Mansell, London.
20. Uniamikogbo, S. (1997), “Poverty alleviation under Nigeria's structural adjustment programme: a policy framework”, Poverty Alleviation in Nigeria: Selected papers for the 1997 Annual Conference of the Nigeria Economic Society, Nigerian Economic Society, Ibadan, pp. 19-40.
21. Wallerstein, I. (1974), The Modern World System, Academic Press, New York, NY.
22. Wilmot, P. (1979), In Search of Nationhood: the Theory and Practice of Nationalism in Africa, Lantern Books, Ibadan.
23. Wilmot, P. (1980), Ideology and National Consciousness, Lantern Books, Ibadan.
24. Zulu, S. (1994), “Africa's survival plan for meeting the challenges of information technology in the 1990s and beyond”, Libri, Vol. 44 No. 1, pp. 77-94.