Adam, Lishan(PhD)Bayle, Tarnrat (PhD)Getu, Shimeles2020-06-182023-11-182020-06-182023-11-181998-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/21776It is a well thought idea that the present day electronic information communication has recreated the world anew. Thought different historical routes can be traced to arrive at today's information communication and exchange, no single achievement equals tile Intermit and WWW for global communication and information staring to reach the stage of development we are experiencing today. Recently, organizations confronted with complexity, upward scaling, competitive environment, have started to adopt Internet-Web technology as an efficient mechanism to manage and sit are their information resources. With this view, this thesis is an attempt to improve IIRI's information resource sharing system by way of Intranet solutions. IIRI has experienced organizational complexity and upward scaling over the past recent years. A research institute with African coverage has IIOW tram formed itself into an international with a scope spanning the whole of tile developing world. Given IIRI's existing set lip, the work reported in this study investigated tile information resource sharing infrastructure at IIRI, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Considering the fact that Intranet solution requires an investigation of content, network infrastructure, and access, this work has first reviewed IIRI's available resources in these lines. The outcomes of tile survey work were reported along with identified problems and requirements. Based on existing information and network infrastructure and based 0n the needs and requirements identified through the survey work, attempt was made to design tile kind of Intranet solution that can address the contemplated need. The design focused on reengineering existing information and network infrastructure to fit into the Intranet solution. Where changes are required and what the changes involve is discussed. In an attempt to demonstrate the potential use of Intranet solution, specific applications were selected to develop the prototype. Static and dynamic web publishing through the web was demonstrate(L The prototype development was based on Windows NT advanced server software 4.0 platform, Microsoft client for TCPIIP, Internet Information Server (lIS), Microsoft Internet Server Application Program Interface (ISAPI), dbf and access (mdb) ODBC drivers, visual basic programming, JavaScript, Active Server Pages, Internet Database Connection (IDC) files and HTML extension (htx files), Microsoft FrontPage, HoTMetaL PRO, HTML, and SunWEB Intranet design method. Finally, implementation plans and how to proceed issues were discussed. Conclusion and recommendation were also made to synthesize the whole exercise attempted in this study and to suggest what needs to be done for Intranet deployment in ILRI as well as further research area along similar lines.enInformation ScienceThesis