The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2005 (ICADL 2005), held in Bangkok, Thailand, 12–15 December 2005, was the 8th in a series of annual international conferences organized by digital library researchers in Asia. ICADL was set up to facilitate and stimulate the exchange of digital library research, information, and technology in the Asian region while also functioning as …
In terms of information access, the internet and the World Wide Web hold forth a historically unique chance for African universities to gain a more equal footing with their sister institutions in the West, yet most African universities are many years, possibly decades, away from reliable, robust ICT and adequate bandwidth. This paper will examine the ways in which the dearth and expense of band…