El Salvador
Becoming a Nation of Information Users. December 1997

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Some of us, here and abroad, believe that technologies such as the Internet's may provide the way for a country to jump into knowledge-based society.
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In order to jump in, we need to become a people of information users, which in turn means we have to become information providers and content developers.
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Just to cite a few examples, there is a Spanish-language formal educational guide made by Universidad Centroamericana about interfaces between the Web and several database management systems. There is also a database containing several national research papers on science and technology, all in Spanish. Finally, there are some official financial and economic statistics, published by the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador.

Rafael Ibarra
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