Contents

Introduction

What Is Feasibility?

Methodology

Summary of Results

A Closer Look at Each University:
Zambia
Makerere
Ghana
Cheikh Anta Diop

Recommendations

Conclusions and Next Steps

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

AAAS is very grateful to the International Digital Electronic Access Library (IDEAL) staff, and particularly to Andy Crowther, for making the entire IDEAL catalog available to us in full text for the purposes of the feasibility study. We are also profoundly indebted to Alan Barrett of Internet Africa in Capetown, South Africa, for lending us his systems administrator Ian Freislich as technical consultant for the two-week trip, and to Mr. Freislich for making himself available and for working so diligently. We also wish to thank our hosts at each of the African universities, who made their Internet resources available to us so generously and treated us with such warm hospitality: John Munsaka and Carol Hawthorne at University of Zambia, James Mugasha and Elly Gamukama at Makerere University, Mumuni Dakubu at University of Ghana, and Boubakar Barry and Alex Corenthin at University of Cheikh Anta Diop. Finally, we are extremely grateful to John Rose and Howard Moore at UNESCO for making the study possible in the first place.