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Institutional, policy and legal barriers to information support for development projects

Mark L. Perkins

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This is an updated version of a paper presented to the ALP/Government Libraries Workshop at IFLA '96. While the Internet is touted as the solution to many problems including developmental the article sets out to show how such problems do not have technical solutions as the problems themselves are social. Issues addressed include censorship, privacy, copyright, training, literacy and the political/economic power to utilize information.

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This is an updated version of a paper presented to the ALP/Government Libraries Workshop at IFLA '96. While the Internet is touted as the solution to many problems including developmental the article sets out to show how such problems do not have technical solutions as the problems themselves are social. Issues addressed include censorship, privacy, copyright, training, literacy and the political/economic power to utilize information.

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This is an updated version of a paper presented to the ALP/Government Libraries Workshop at IFLA '96. While the Internet is touted as the solution to many problems including developmental the article sets out to show how such problems do not have technical solutions as the problems themselves are social. Issues addressed include censorship, privacy, copyright, training, literacy and the political/economic power to utilize information.

Key concepts: Censorship, The Internet, Government (linguistics), Politics, Public relations, Internet privacy, Political science, Information literacy

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