A Clearing House for Public Information Systems in Africa: A Proposal |
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Account with Budget accounting systems advocates a compromise African governments African public bureaucracies applications software ASYCUDA Borrowing Brooks build custom systems buying clearing house clearinghouse client government COBOL commercial packages commercial software computerized information systems contact the developer Contractor reluctance cost of developing data base dBase development is implementation Donor influence evaluation reports experience from Kenya fourth general applications fourth generation language Functional System government staff government's requirements Harvard Institute Harvard University implementation not software information systems developed Informix Institute for International International Development introducing custom systems microcomputer MIP Fund Accounting modified Moussa and Schware multi-user applications network would provide Oracle Government Financial Oracle SQL Paul Krystal Peterson pilot system preferring custom procurement promote prototype provide governments PUBLIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS public sector information reason for preferring refine their requirements review existing systems sector in Africa sector information systems software development source code systems in Africa UNIX variant of building