The awakening information needs of the developing countries

1979 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 285-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn V. Tell
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Online Systems ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Centres Of Excellence

The developing countries arc emulating the industrialized countries when setting up information services to cater for their information needs. However, the traditional infrastruc ture of service organisations may not be the best model for supporting easy and speedy access to information. A different approach is argued, founded upon the enthusiasm with which many developing countries have taken to online systems when demonstrated there. A model for a ministerial information network is proposed as part of a "social intel ligence function" of the country. It is proposed that Unesco and UNIDO should set up regional "centres of excellence" according to this model for developing countries.

Role of Librarians and Medical Information Experts in Response to Covid-19 in Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-304
Author(s):  
Nasrin Aliasghari
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Knowledge Brokers

Human being has always faced different critical situations and unpredictable events such as floods, earthquakes and terrible infectious diseases such as cholera, plague, tuberculosis and influenza. However, it is believed that the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has been the most shocking pandemic that led to destructive effects in all geographical areas of the world and all aspect of terrestrial life. The governments increasingly enact quarantines, curfews, closures, and other restrictive controls against the countries, citizens, and institutions and deploy their facilities to tackle the infection and prevent its spread (1). Amid the anxiety of lock downs and the cancellation of educational programs around the world, researcher support has not stopped, and a group of knowledge brokers, led by librarians and medical informantionists, are constantly providing information services. Information is an urgent and essential commodity in any crisis. Therefore, librarians and information experts have to be always prepared to meet the information needs of society and provide the users with access to information.

Challenges for Libraries in the Information Age

2011 ◽  
pp. 65-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gould ◽  
Ricardo Gomez
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Types Of Information

Libraries play a central role as venues that offer public access to information. Increasingly, libraries in developing countries are offering access to computers and the Internet, as well as to books and other types of information services and resources. Given the relatively scant literature on public access to ICT in libraries in many countries, we explore in this chapter the specific challenges libraries face in the countries we studied in the Landscape Study. How are public libraries serving the information needs of marginalized communities in developing countries? How is access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) changing the landscape of public access to information? How can libraries better collaborate with other types of venues (such as telecenters and cybercafés) that offer public access to computers and the Internet? These are some of the questions that we seek to answer in this chapter.

Access to Information for Small Business Managers: Examination of Some Strategies and Values

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
France Bouthillier
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Service Model ◽  
Access Information

Understanding how specific groups of users access information is central for developing adequate library and information services and systems. The paper presents preliminary and partial results of a study on the information needs of small business managers and their information service requirements. The study aimed at identifying a service model that would fit the needs and requirements. . .

scholarly journals Library and Information Services in Marginalised and Under-Resourced Communities in South Africa: Ecosystem Services and Their Implications

Libri ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Mojapelo ◽  
Luyanda Dube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Democratic Elections

AbstractDaunting backlogs in terms of the library and information resource-provision in communities remain a stumbling block for all people, particularly youths, to have equitable access to information as a commodity to satisfy their dynamic and diverse ever-evolving information needs. In South Africa, the system of ruling called apartheid, also known as separate development, was officially nullified by the first democratic elections in 1994. All people including those in under-served rural communities need equitable access to information in varied formats for personal growth and development however, in the library and information services (LIS) sector, existing divisions, barriers or boundaries impede diverse users with wide-ranging information needs to fulfil them. User groups of libraries are currently divided along the still-prevailing historical divisions, an example being how university libraries are traditionally intended to cater for the information needs of their students, academics and administrative staff. Despite fulfilling their teaching needs, university libraries are also expected to cater for the research needs of students and academics to fulfil research projects, presenting university libraries as existing solely for teaching and research purposes. The key findings of the study are that most LIS are still distinctly divided with regard to their user-groups and ecosystems, with collaborations and partnerships very minimal in the LIS sector in South Africa. The study concludes that these distinct divisions deny multiple users the opportunity to equitably access information resources to meet their information needs daily. The study recommends that, based on the literature review, a holistic interconnected complex network of libraries working and existing as an ecosystem can be a viable solution to provision of LIS in resource-poor rural South African communities where there is inadequate resource-provision. The study also recommends borderless and seamless access to all libraries to enable multiple and diverse users to satisfy their dynamic and ever-changing information needs.

Rares Diseases and Handicap: State of the Medical, Social and Health Policy in Developing Countries. Cameroon case: about One Case: Cushing Disease

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolle Laure Kpoumie
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health System ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Cushing Disease ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cost

Rare’s diseases and orphan’s diseases, disability (orhandicap) are a reality throughout the world and a real public health problem in developing countries. The great precariousness in which the populations live increases their impact and their gravity by the absence of information, technical platform, means of detection, actual presence of research and clinical studies on these territories, lack of awareness of the detection, diagnosis, without forgetting that the means of care and prevention are sometimes in existent or little known and especially expensive in countries where the populations are poor, without mutual or social security as in industrialized countries .This work will focus on a patient case presenting a rare disease: Cushing's disease. A case that occurred in Cameroon in order to establish in a practical way this major and yet ignored, neglected issue in a health system with poor specialized structures, technical platforms, and without the support of the pharmaceutical laboratories that could with the health system of these poor countries set up a system of refueling in the sense of the social view the cost that requires the monitoring of these long pathologies that make autonomous living almost impossible, also life-threatening.In Cameroon, there have been difficulties in the care and monitoring of this young patient since childhood through the phase of the pubertal transition, adolescence, to adulthood. It is therefore important to organize the follow-up of these patients, by developing specific programs of medical follow-up, psychological care, and social integration programs. Health policies should invest in better support.

Public libraries as facilitators of information services

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mugwisi ◽  
Glenrose Velile Jiyane ◽  
Madeleine C. Fombad
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Adults And Children

Public libraries are important institutions to support access to information services. Many communities, especially in rural areas, cannot afford to access information services and rely on free libraries in their communities in their quest for information services. The need for libraries to serve multicultural information users should therefore be reflected in their attempts to provide access to information services in their communities. This article reports on a study of libraries as facilitators of access to information services in a developing context. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 24 conveniently selected librarians from 9 public libraries in Northern Library Region in the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. Interviews were further conducted with 98 diverse information users who were randomly sampled during data collection. Findings indicate that public libraries provide diverse information services to learners, parents, general workers, students, women and young adults and children in their different age groups, occupations and general activities performed in their role of facilitating access to information services. These diverse users have diverse information needs, which create some challenges in the provision of information services. It was found that limited funding, shortage of skills and knowledge, technology and time, among others, are challenges limiting provision of information services in these libraries. Recruiting potential users, contesting for increased funding, lobbying for support, facilitation of technological training of skills are some recommendations made by this study.

scholarly journals Is the West best?: Education for School Information Service Professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Jo Hallein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
School Library ◽  
Information Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Training School ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Set Up

School Library Educators in developing countries have, in the main, been training School Infomration Professionals using models of education developed in the United States and Europe. While there have been some local modifications to these western models few countries have developed truly local education programs for Infomation Servie Professional. This is due, in part, to the fact that the Information Services that students are being educated to work with are global information services often based on series developed in the United States and Europe. Many of the advisers who helped to set up school library training programs are from Western Countries and a large proportion of the staff lecturing in these programs have been educated in Western Countries. The paper will conclude by discussing if western models of education for School Information Service Professionals are the most appropriate models given the increased globilization of information services or whether locally developed models can best service the needs of those training to work in developing countries.

Competition Policy for the New Era

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Competition Policy ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Collective Wisdom ◽  
Brics Countries ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The World

This book presents a new stage in the contributions of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to the development of Competition Law and policy. These countries have significant influence in their respective regions and in the world. The changing global environment means greater political and economic role for the BRICS and other emerging countries. BRICS countries are expected to contribute nearly half of all global gross domestic product growth by 2020. For more than a century, the path of Competition Law has been defined by the developed and industrialized countries of the world. Much later, developing countries and emerging economies came on the scene. They experience many of the old competition problems, but they also experience new problems, and experience even the old problems differently. Where are the fora to talk about Competition Law and policy fit for developing and emerging economies? The contributors in this book are well-known academic and practising economists and lawyers from both developed and developing countries. The chapters begin with a brief introduction of the topic, followed by a critical discussion and a conclusion. Accordingly, each chapter is organized around a central argument made by its author(s) in relation to the issue or case study discussed. These arguments are thoughtful, precise, and very different from each another. Each chapter is written to be a valuable freestanding contribution to our collective wisdom. The set of case studies as a whole helps to build a collection of different perspectives on competition policy.

scholarly journals Light People: Professor Chennupati Jagadish

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Research Career ◽  
National University ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Equal Educational Opportunities ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Young Researchers

EditorialIn 2018, the Indian film “Starting Line” focused the public’s attention on the issue of education in India. It depicted the length some Indian parents were willing to go to secure educational resources for their children, as well as the difficulties faced by those disadvantaged in society in their fight for equal educational opportunities. In reality, many brilliant young Indian talents have been able to study in Australia through a fund set up by Prof. Chennupati Jagadish, a Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University. Prof. Jagadish is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In 2018 he was awarded a UNESCO Prize for his contribution to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. He holds many positions, and has won numerous awards. What started Prof. Jagadish on his scientific research career? How did he become the respected scientist he is today? What was his intention in setting up the educational fund for students from developing countries? What advice does he have for young researchers? Here are the answers from Prof. Jagadish.

A Security Power Defense System Based on Cloud Computing

2014 ◽  
Vol 701-702 ◽  
pp. 919-922
Author(s):  
Hong Fei Xu ◽  
Si Rui Pang ◽  
Jian Wen Du ◽  
Xue Mei Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Information Network ◽  
Secondary System ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Network Scheduling ◽  
Network Partition ◽  
Network Information ◽  
System Information ◽  
Set Up

A system includes three power information security defense line is constructed, to achieve the information network, information outside the network, scheduling data network depth protection. According to the information security protection requirements, starting from the overall structure of information systems, taking into account the information system to schedule production system as the core, based on independent research and development of core information security isolation unit, set up three lines of defense in the power of information systems, electricity secondary system, information network systems, information systems outside the network partition protection.

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