Computer awareness and computer literacy in Africa
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- Telematics and Informatics [ 0736-5853 ] ; 1985.
Abstract
With widespread use of computers people are likely to be confronted with new techniques and new equipments for which they may be quite unprepared. Thus, to maximize the benefit to be gained from the use of computers, there is a need to examine the question of formal education, training and continuing education. As in the conventional education system where reading and writing are a prerequisite, with the inevitable Information Age ahead of us, computer literacy will yet bring a new classification of people—computer literates and computer illeterates or information-haves and information-have-nots. Training and retraining should, therefore, play an important role in shaping and reshaping the mind. In the world of informatics in particular, continuing education is inseparable from the normal training as this field is perpetually changing along side the new techniques. While efforts are underway to mobilize the masses in meeting the challenges of the information technology elsewhere, most African countries are still dormant in this respect. This paper, therefore, discusses computer awareness and computer literacy in Africa in the light of global awakening in the use of informatics for development.
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