IASSIST Collaboration In Africa

IASSIST Quarterly Summer 2002 IASSIST Quarterly Summer 2002 5 Abstract From a research-collaboration perspective, African researchers have many opportunities to learn from the international community. The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) possesses the resources and intellectual capacity to play a more meaningful role in information sharing and exchange of best practices in quantitative research service delivery. The aim of this paper is to make recommendations with regard to the way in which IASSIST can bring about closer collaboration between its international members and the African region. Closer collaboration could boost the interest of researchers in quantitative research and secondary data analysis, using the new technologies and the services of the existing African national data archives.