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Item Information Technology for Productivity: The American Experience: A Review(Industrial science centre, 2012) Folorunso, O. O.This paper reviews the linkage between Information Technology (IT) and productivity revival in the U.S. economy in the 1990's and beyond. Several studies have clearly revealed that Information Technology can significantly contribute to productivity growth through the production and use of IT. It however remains a debate whether larger productivity growth accrues from IT use or its production. The paper also highlights the challenges encountered by analysts in measuring the contribution of IT to productivity growth. After year 2000, many analysts expected that labor productivity growth would slow down as IT investment retreated, but instead, it accelerated further over the years, albeit IT contribution was more than offset by several other factors.The paper concludes that the standard tools of growth analysis do not capture adequately the ways in which IT innovation and business process innovation are related. Further, there are risks that productivity growth could slow down in the near future. It is, however, certain that the effects of IT on productivity will appreciably spread to industrial countries beyond the United States, and there is no reason why IT should not play a similar role in such countries.Item Knowledge infrastructure development as panacea to quality assurance in higher education in Nigeria(Department of Guidance and Counselling, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2019) Olaojo, P. O.; Oyeboade, J. A.; Otuyalo, M. A.; Ajokotola, B. O.Knowledge is a pre-requisite to any significant level of infrastructure development. The paper emphasized knowledge infrastructure development as panacea to quality assurance in higher education in Nigeria. From preliminary observation, there may not be meaningful, Creative and deepened use of technology for teaching, learning and research activities in higher institutions without the availability and adequacy of knowledge infrastructure. The methodology adopted for this paper was literature-based approach. The literature consulted covered the period of 1995 to 2017. The materials consulted for the literature survey include scholarly journals, textbooks, conference proceedings, and Internet sources. Contextual information from the information materials were studied comparatively, discussed and inferences were drawn from the literature. The concept of knowledge infrastructure has been discussed in the paper to reflect new knowledge practices captured under the language of crowd sourcing, cyber-infrastructure, personal informatics, citizen science, open access, among others. The paper further discussed the process of knowledge infrastructure which centred on knowledge accumulation, integration, and reconfiguration. In addition, knowledge infrastructure as panacea to quality assurance in higher education reflects quality use of information by access control. The paper concludes that investment in knowledge infrastructure would make African countries to compete with the rest of the global world in terms of infrastructural development. The recommendations therefore include provision of relevant ICT tools to aid library services; improvement of library personnel ICT skills; and readiness to use knowledge infrastructure by library users.