ABSTRACT
Development needs to be reconceptualized, a process that requires an attitude change among development thinkers, planners and implementers. This attitude change should perceive development as stemming from, and in part comprising, the advancement of capabilities in decision-making and productivity in a competitive global village. Information resources must be optimized so as to enhance internal and external transparency – which is what is meant by information management. Development thus calls for institutional reorientation. Those organizations and individuals responsible for environment enabling need to see terrain transparency as their fundamental responsibility. Capability enhancement as a fundamental goal in the development process needs the participation of private- and public-sector organizations. In this way information provision can be moved out of the welfare and training enclave into competitive production. The participation of the private sector will include the improvement of physical infrastructure, input into the designing of the regulatory infrastructure, and provision of commercial information.
