Accessibility of information: a myth for developing countries?

Abstract

Discusses the importance of information to personal and national development and emphasizes that apart from access problems created by the rapid growth of information for the world’s ever‐increasing population, there are other constraints, especially in developing countries. Concludes that access to most of the world’s wealth of information will remain a myth for the developing countries until they overcome the prevailing obstacles, which include high rate of illiteracy, unawareness of the relevance of information, poverty and lack of infrastructural facilities.