Collection: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) / Subject Term: World Bank / Journal Title: World Development

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Moussa, Antoun (author), Schware, Robert (author), and The World Bank, Washington, D.C.; The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1992
Published:: USA: Pergamon Press, London
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07774
Journal Title:: World Development
Journal Title Details:: 20 (12) : 1737-1752
Notes:: search through journal, Governments' agencies are the dominant information technology (IT) users in Africa. As in the developed countries, the returns of the use of IT are mixed. Analysis of 76 World Bank projects in Africa shows that government and aid agencies alike need to make more intensive efforts in the design of projects with IT components, taking into account clients' limited absorptive capacity. Specific examples of IT use show the core constraining factors to lie in limited human and organizational capabilities (original)

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