A Prototype Multimedia Database System for Potential Investment Projects in Ethiopia: An Object•Oriented Approach
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1998-05
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Ethiopia is now running to make itself a destination of investors. To make investment decision,
however, investors require quality information on the main parameters of the country,
including investment opportunities and costs, legal framework for investment, and available
infrastructures. To provide for such requirements, among other things, detail and continuos
studies for the development of appropriate information systems that generate quality
information on potential investment projects of the country are essential.
This study was an attempt to develop a multimedia database for potential investment projects
with the aim of upgrading the existing data management system at the Ethiopian Investment
Authority. Investors and direct investment officers in the country were surveyed through mail
questionnaire, personal interview, literature review, document searching, and observation. On
the basis of the analysis of the facts gathered, information requirements of potential investors,
and existing data management problems at the Authority were identified. An attempt was
made to identify the causes of problems and their remedies. The necessity of maintaining
different forms or types of data on potential investment projects that meet the identified
requirements was also explored.
A prototype multimedia database was developed as a solution in tackling the existing
problems. The project subsystem part of the design was implemented and tested. The study
established that the existing data management system at the Authority has serious problems in
meeting the information requirements of potential investors. During investment decision,
investors require quality information on investment opportunities, investment climate, and
spatial entity. The potential investment projects database, proposed as a solution, should
integrate different forms of data, such as text, image, video, and audio.
Further, recommendations were made for considerations by the Authority to fully benefit from
the solutions suggested by way of identifying major activities to be carried out to develop and
implement the prototype database into a filily operational database.
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Prototype Multimedia Database System