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==Pan African Development Information System==
==Pan African Development Information System==
The Pan African Development Information System, or PADIS was a co-operative initiative started in early 1980 in Ethiopia. It's primary objectives were as folows:
The Pan African Development Information System, or PADIS was a co-operative initiative started in early 1980 in Ethiopia. PADIS was comprised of five sites that stored data from The PADIS Network which consisted of 39 centres that interacted, created and exchanged information system data amongst themselves. These centres aimed to assist policy-making decisions and the socio-political development of the African continent. Its primary objectives were as follows:
* To promote the improvement of information infrastructure in African member States, especially through the adoption of information technology in Africa as a tool for improvement information management and exchange on behalf of development;
* To promote the improvement of information infrastructure in African member States, especially through the adoption of information technology in Africa as a tool for improvement information management and exchange on behalf of development;
* Provision of user services, including printed outputs from data bases, newsletters, selective dissemination of information, current awareness profiles and retrospective searches, question/answer service, hardcopy and microfiche document delivery, data bases on magnetic media and consolidating and repackaging of information. <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/padis_ams.html African Studies Center. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref>
* Provision of user services, including printed outputs from data bases, newsletters, selective dissemination of information, current awareness profiles and retrospective searches, question/answer service, hardcopy and microfiche document delivery, data bases on magnetic media and consolidating and repackaging of information. <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/padis_ams.html African Studies Center. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref>
==PADISNET==
In a fashion similar to [[ARPNET]], PADISNET began in 1990 as a pilot project to electronically link distinct network nodes. Supported by the International Development Resource Center (IDRC), PADISNET connected on-demand to London, South Africa, the United States, Dakar (Senegal), Accra (Ghana), and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). <ref>[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Padis/Godard.html Africa and Sciences, The Availability of Computer Communications. Retrieved 25 Jan 2016.]</ref>
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