ICSTI to Provide Information Aid for Developing Countries

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The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has launched a major project to improve access to scientific and technical information in developing countries. In cooperation with UNESCO and the International Telecommunication Union, the project will investigate ways of narrowing the "knowledge gap" between rich and poor countries by making use of new telecommunication systems.

The project was approved at the 1994 Extraordinary General Assembly of ICSTI held in Cambridge, U.K., in July. It is one of a number of projects launched by ICSTI, which include building a pool of expertise on computer networking, and assessing the "state of the art" in …