Improving Electronic Information Literacy in West African Higher Education

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Author(s): Ibrahima Poda (Miami University, USA)and William F. Brescia (University of Arkansas, USA)
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 6
Source title: Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stewart Marshall (The University of the West Indies, Barbados), Wal Taylor (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)and Xinghuo Yu (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch074

Keywords: Global Information Technology / Government & Law / Information Science Reference / Urban & Regional Development

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Electronic information literacy has gained increased importance with the advent of the new information and communication technologies which, driven by the convergence of computers and telecommunications media, are crucial for facilitating, supporting, and enhancing learning and for the knowledge-based economy of the future. In “Africa’s Information Society Initiative (AISI): An Action Framework to Build Africa’s Information and Communication Infrastructure,” African ICT experts appointed by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), have described the potential of the Internet to improve learning in higher education and established the foundation for this to become a reality in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AISI document that the group of experts produced was adopted by the ECA Conference of Ministers as the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) in 1996.

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