ABSTRACT
National Information policy has implications for infrastructures and technologies as well as for training. This chapter focuses on organizations and institutions as information-utilizing enablers of development. The concentration is on the process of development and the contribution of national institutions to the process through the advancement of environment transparency for development agents. In this, the institutions are pushing forward the cause of technology transfer, industrialization and development. In a transparent terrain, it is possible to keep sight of objectives and the criteria for evaluating success or failure despite environmental changes. Transparency also makes it possible to define fallback positions and maximum exit costs. These support logical and informed project demobilization: the letting go and graceful burying of dead projects. Without adequate transparency, policy aims such as science and technology, training, technology transfer and industrialization become elusive, and evaluation and accountability impossible to institute.
