Digitization as the Agent of Technological Revolution in Storage of and Access to Information
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Author
Houissa, Ali
Description
Much of the information that used to exist solely print has passed into digital form. Electronic publishing has replaced to a large extent old type setting techniques, and the trend towards digitization is affecting all three segments of the information industry–computing, telecommunications, and broadcasting.
Sponsorship
Editor’s note: This paper was presented as a contribution to the MELA-sponsored Roundtable “The Technology of Information: the Middle East” at the December, 1999, Annual Meeting the Middle East Studies Asscoiation in Washington.
Date Issued
2000-01
Publisher
Middle East Studies Asscoiation
Previously Published as
MELA Notes, Number 69-70 (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) pp 14-21
ISSN
0364-2410
Type
case study