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)
Beck, Donald M. (author), Dillman, Don A. (author), and Washington State University, Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology; Washington State University, Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: C02864
James F. Evans Collection; Based on the paper presented at the first National Conference on States' Rural Economic Development; 1987 October 5-7; Lexington, KY
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress (author)
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Report
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: C08356
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Washington, D.C. : Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives, December, 1982. 358 p.
