Transfer of High Technology to Developing Countries

High-technology is an umbrella term for that branch of advanced technology which utilizes electronics. At ITC we are particularly concerned with developing countries, and this is realised through our education, consultancy, and research programmes directed towards the resource problems of such countries. For whatever reason, these countries have chosen to move away from traditional practices; these traditional practices may refer to particular agricultural, settlement, or labour patterns. Having been asked to address the problem of high-technology transfer to developing countries, we can do so only within the context of implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS's) in those countries which have had, hitherto, little or no experience of computer technology.