Politicians in developing countries need to focus their minds on the problems of cost and availability of access to telecommunications and cut back on predatory pricing that inhibits their development. One possible solution for educational institutions is to set-up their own satellite access to an Internet service provider. JTL provides a range of links to resources to help educators find what they are looking for. Applying for entrance to colleges may become easier with the trend in many countries of having central registration offices.
Resources are something academics never seem to have enough of.
It is aimed at serving the needs of university staff. The database provides access to short digests that are topic searchable on development research. The problem of plagiarism is said to have increased with the widening use of the Internet. A service called IntegriGuard is being developed that will allow lecturers to have papers scanned for possible misuse of others' writings. The idea is that lecturers will submit student's papers electronically for checking against a database.