Information Needs of the Public Manufacturing Enterprises in Ethiopia
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1992-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
with an overall objective of identifying the information needs
and problems of the public manufacturing sub-sector and
proposing recommendations for the development of the national
industrial information systems and services, a questionnaire
survey was made on 34 enterprises and their employees and a
total of 159 completed questionnaire were collected and
analyzed. Assessments were made on the general features of the
manufacturing sector, industrial techn~logy transfer and R&D
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activities, and the existing industrial information sources,
systems and services based on the literature on the subjects
and interviews.
Most of the enterprises (91%) do not have any organised
information unit nor do they have concrete plans and
programmes to establish such a unit in the near future. But
the majority of the respondents (81%) believe their firms
need their own information units and they think the major
factor for the absence such units in the enterprises was lack
of management awareness than shortage of the required
resources. The major areas of information need were
production, technical and marketing in that sequence.
Though the enterprises were depending on various external
information sources for the needed information, the dependence on library/information centres is very low compared to other
sources mainly because neither the collection of their
information centres nor their services could meet their
requirements.
In order to address the identified problems and needs, and to
improve the industrial information systems and services,
measures needed to be taken at the levels of the Ministry of
Industry, industry- groups and enterprises are suggested~
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Information Needs, Public Manufacturing