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The
Role and impact of Digital Library
Digital
Library is defined as an organization providing resources,
including the specialized staff, for selecting, structuring,
accessing, interpreting, distributing, and preserving collections
of digital works so that they are readily and economically
available for use by a defined community or set of communities.
The Concept of End To End High Availability
To be
competitive in today's business environment, companies need
to achieve a state of business continuity, where critical
business processes, work centers, systems and networks are
always available to support their customers.
Guest's
Corner
Ethiopia
has definitely produced a competitive and marketable workforce
in the ICT field during the last three decades. The pace,
as in the rest of the world was not that fast.
Ato Solomon Berhanu
Setting
National Standard Bidding Documents for the Supply and Installation
of Information Systems: A Timely Concern
When bidding
is based on technical product or service specifications, single-stage
procurement is usually appropriate, even for complex procurements.
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Editors’
Note
The pace
to deploy ICTs in the civil service, the public sector and
the private business of the economy to attain better results
from their endeavours is fast increasing. The civil service
and the public sectors are presently the major purchasers
of the ICT products and services to automate their vast activities.
Government departments should, therefore, initially undertake
careful planning exercises before going into the procurement
and installation ventures since they involve a huge share
of the nation's resources
The planning
should undergo various phases from needs assessment to pre-qualifying
and short-listing of potential ICT companies through their
IT departments or the appointment of consultants. This does
not only avoid the acquisition of inferior products but also
guarantee the efficient utilization of time and scarce resources
in the introduction of the technologies. It is now time for
the responsible government bodies to set clearly defined guidelines
for a transparent tendering and bid processing procedures
so as to ensure minimum standards of behaviour and conduct
at all level in the transaction. A procedure that regulates
the supply and installation of ICTs shall ensure sober practice,
create trust in the ICT community, avoid unfair competition
and save time and resources for the parties concerned.
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