Information and knowledge are the drivers of socio-economic development. According to a World Bank report, weakness in the application of knowledge is a major factor behind the economic stagnation in Africa. Compared with ...
The paper discusses extensively the benefits and challenges of creating an institutional repository (IR) with local content (LC). The similarity of this to the National Library of Nigeria Legal Deposit (LD) Law was examined. ...
This is a study of, first, the climate, conditions, practices and factors which all converge to constitute the ecology of a digital library in Lesotho in general, and in the University plus State library service specifically; ...
Early IR and OA initiatives in Africa began in 1998, before the term OA was current.
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Rhodes University (RU) in South Africa mounted its first digital thesis on the World Wide Web in 1998; it became the first institution ...
From 1995 to 2008, Africa’s average economic growth was 5% per annum. In 2008 GDP growth in Africa was 5.5% against 6.5% in 2007, representing the fifth consecutive year when growth exceeded 5.5%. This has largely been ...
Development has many meanings depending on the context. In this context, it is the positive transformation/change of people’s ways of living, attitudes and behaviours as a result of their exposure/access to relevant, ...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group was established in 1964, and its mission is to mobilize resources for Africa’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African ...
The capacity to recognize actionable value in existing or new information or events, and to use such information efficiently in various ways, including the ability to use information to innovate -that is, to restructure ...
• Primary source of SA published
documentary heritage
• Wealth of information
• Books, periodicals, newspapers, maps,
special collections, government
publications, foreign official publications
The objects of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) and the functions it is required to perform are prescribed by the National Libraries Act, Act 92 of 1998. The NLSA is the primary resource of South African published ...
‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to ...
The world today is interconnected. Now more than ever before it is easier than it was before to access information and advance ideas through technology. We are in the 21st century. In recognising this as the South African ...
Agriculture is a crucial sector for most of sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya for instance agriculture is the largest sector in the Kenyan economy, generating a quarter of the gross domestic product and two-fifths of export ...