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    1. Agricultural services initiative: report based on the World Bank workshop held at Lilongwe in February 1991

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Schwartz, Lisa (author) and Venkatesan, V. (author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1992-06
    Published:
    Africa: Technical Department African Region, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 131 Document Number: C19773
    Notes:
    Burton Swanson Collection, 110 pages; Agriculture and Rural Development Series no. 4

    2. Informatics in Africa : lessons from World Bank experience

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    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)