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Trinidad, Sue; Broadley, Tania – Education in Rural Australia, 2008
The research reported in this paper documents the use of Web2.0 applications with six Western Australian schools that are considered to be regional and/or remote. With a population of two million people within an area of 2,525,500 square kilometres Western Australia has a number of towns that are classified as regional and remote. Each of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Educational Opportunities, Internet
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Middleton, M. R. – Electronic Library, 1983
Outlines the present status of library automation and networking in Australia and explores the issues arising when regional network operations consider their relationship to the national Australian Bibliographic Network: provision of services, standards, network technology, contractual arrangements, economics, and policy. Thirty-eight references…
Descriptors: Consortia, Foreign Countries, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
TV Ontario, Toronto. – 1991
This dossier is intended to serve as the main preparatory briefing document for participants in the Public Broadcasters International (PBI) symposium, and to stimulate thought and discussion on all facets of public broadcasting. The first of four sections provides an overview of the current broadcasting environment, the challenges facing public…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Communications Satellites, Conferences, Foreign Countries
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de Freitas, Claudette – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 1996
Examines the history of information systems in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), proposed development strategies for the area, the OECS INFONET project, and resulting recommendations for developing and sustaining regional information networks. An appendix summarizes 1991 Gross National Product and population data for the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Summarizes reports from six sessions of the 1990 seminar convened by the Federation for Information and Documentation (FID). Highlights include policies concerning the availability of information and access to it; information policy problems between industrialized and nonindustrialized countries; the future of FID; and new information technologies…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Lalor, Gerald C.; Marrett, Christine – 1986
Since March 1983, the University of the West Indies has been conducting a distance teaching experiment that links its three campuses and the Extra Mural Centres in Antigua, Dominica, and St. Lucia by telecommunications. The network is used for interactive distance teaching and other types of teleconferences. A variety of modern audio and video…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Distance Education, Foreign Countries