A National Policy on Information Systems and Services for Tanzania: Formulation and Strategy for Implementation
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1992-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The information professionals, decision-makers as well as
policy-makers aware of information issues in Africa, are
demanding that their governments formulate specific national
information policies.
It has been realized in wider circles that coordination,
resource sharing and information exchange are futile in the
absence of explicit principles and directions articulated in
the form of legal policies. Policies aref decrarations of
intent to take action, and they help to resolve confusion
over who is responsible, at the national level for taking
stock of advances in technological capabilities as well as
adverse effects on i-nformation systems and services. ,~. ' ,.. . . -
In Tanzania attempts have been made to create a
coordinated national information network to facilitate
planning and decision-making in all sectors of development.
However, these attempts have not yet been fruitful because an
overall policy to guide such an establishment does not exist.
This work is an attempt to provide a methodology aimed at
formulating a national policy on information systems, a
premise for a coordinated national information system for
Tanzania.
Background information on Tanzania, and description of
the existing information infrastructure is followed by a
discussion of explicit policy issues, model policy statements
and implications and strategies for their implementation.
Finally, a step by step methodology for formulating the
policy, divided into three phases is given.
It is hoped that this thesis will serve as a groundwork
for the process of formulation of a national policy on
information for Tanzania, and the document recommends that
Tanzania embark on this process as soon as possible.
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National Policy on Information Systems