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This Is An Independently Managed Website. The Views Expressed In The Pages Are Those Of The Contributors And Not Necessarily Those Of The Cape Peninsula University Of Technology

Elisha Chiware

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Current Status Of The Collection And Use Of Statistics In Academic And Public Libraries In Africa, Elisha Chiware, Buhle Mbambo-Thata Jul 2008

Current Status Of The Collection And Use Of Statistics In Academic And Public Libraries In Africa, Elisha Chiware, Buhle Mbambo-Thata

Elisha Chiware

Proceedings of the conference held in Montreal on 18-19 August 2008 reporting on the on Global Library Statistics Project. Michael Heaney (ed.). Munchen: K.G. Saur


Information Needs, Seeking Patterns Of Small, Medium And Micro Enterprises (Smmes) In Namibia, Elisha Chiware, Archie Dick Jan 2008

Information Needs, Seeking Patterns Of Small, Medium And Micro Enterprises (Smmes) In Namibia, Elisha Chiware, Archie Dick

Elisha Chiware

Reports on an investigation of the business information needs, information seeking patterns and business information services for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in Namibia. The study ranks business information needs of SMMEs as: finance, marketing, production, and training, policies on SMME development, sources of raw materials, regulations, technical information and other types of information. The study reveals that SMMEs largely depend on informal information sources despite the existence of a wide range of business information services in Namibia. Recommendations are made on how business information delivery services can be improved in the SMME sector in Namibia by both government …


Harnessing Icts For The Use And Preservation Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Case Study Of Informal Traders In Namibia, Elisha Chiware Dec 2007

Harnessing Icts For The Use And Preservation Of Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Case Study Of Informal Traders In Namibia, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

Paper presented at the 74th IFLA General Conference, 10-14 August 2008, Quebec Canada.


Scientific Content Creation And Dissemination: Opportunities For African Universities In Electronic Publishing, Elisha Chiware Dec 2006

Scientific Content Creation And Dissemination: Opportunities For African Universities In Electronic Publishing, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

Africa has made some strides in accessing the Internet over the last decade or so and it has managed to upload considerable information on to the Internet in the areas of business, information technology, connectivity and politics. But there is a missing link in scientific and technological information content creation and dissemination. Several proposals have been made to narrow the gap between developed countries and Africa in terms of uploading information on to the Internet. Besides the growing public information and the presence of commercial web, content generated from African universities is expanding. Internet connectivity in Africa and most of …


Information And Communication Technologies In Rural Secondary Schools In Africa, Elisha Chiware Dec 2001

Information And Communication Technologies In Rural Secondary Schools In Africa, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

Proceedings of a Workshop held in Harare, Zimbabwe 29th Nov. – 3rd Dec. 1999. (Project Report no. 20). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions/Advancement for Librarianship Programme. Uppsala: Uppsala University Library, 2002