Drawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.

Monograph on computer and EDP applications in Africa - discusses feasibility of establishing an integrated electronic network of public administration information, use of computers in university research, demography, psychology, mapping and humanities, management information systems and forecasting, etc. Bibliography pp. 309 to 332, diagrams, flow charts and maps.

"Technology's impact on social change in two African settings is the subject of this study. The preparation of this book involved field research over a four-year period in Kenya and Ivory Coast. A longitudinal study has permitted [the author] to trace the enormous changes that have taken place in the availability of microcomputers in both settings and the growth of firms and educational institutions dedicated to computer use."--Pref.

Microcomputers are an increasingly important tool in all aspects of development as the need to handle and assimilate vast quantities of information becomes ever more critical for both the international development community and the developing countries. In addition, the microcomputer represents the first significant technological advance that a dev