- number of users \ types of organisations using network
- numbers and types of transactions, by topic and by origin (national
or international) carried out on network (examples: numbers of personal
communications, academic enquiries, searches for economic and commercial
information, searches for scientific \ research information)
- utilisation of information (example: time sequence of surveys examine
how information obtained through the network has been used and the impacts
of its use)
- satisfaction of users \ subscribers (example: questionnaires and interviews
over time to determine the level of user satisfaction with information
obtained through the network, with the quality of service provided by network
managers, with the technical effectiveness of network operation)
- value of benefits from information obtained through the network versus
real cost of obtaining the information (examples: time sequence of surveys
comparing financial costs and benefits of the network for commercial users,
surveys comparing perceived benefits and financial costs for scientific
and technical users)
- impacts on decision making of information obtained through the network
(example: time sequence of surveys of different types of users to determine
how they make important decisions, and how their decision- making processes
are affected over time by information obtained through the network)
- impact of access fees on user demand
- use of network to access information within the country versus international
information sources (example: measure of how many local data bases \ types
of databases are accessed through network compared with numbers of international
data bases \ types of databases being accessed)
- country-related information available \ accessible via the network
(examples: number of local organisations \ types of organisations making
databases available, measures of affordabiltiy of access to local data
bases and quality of local data bases)
- national network’s role in changing attitudes towards information (example:
time sequence of interviews \ questionnaires examining network users’ perceptions
of how information can and should be used)
- value of the network for communication, within the country and between
the country and the rest of the world (example: time sequence of surveys
examining how the network is being used for communication at different
geographic scales)
- effect of the local SDNP steering committee on the national dialogue
(example: time sequence of surveys examining perceptions of information
and information sharing within member organisations)
- links between Agenda 21 and network activities \ utilisation (example:
survey of network's contribution to achieving national Agenda 21 goals)
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