Partnership in Higher Education in Africa: Communications Implications beyond the 2000s.

To date, the possibilities for African countries to use information and communication technologies to respond to the challenges and the demand of higher education have been limited. An assessment and analysis of the development, state, and usage of telecommunications in Africa constitute in fact an...

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Publicado en:African & Asian Studies Vol. 2; no. 4; pp. 577 - 611
Autor principal: Sy, Jacques Habib
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2003
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