György Rózsa: Information: from claims to needs (Joint edition published by the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Kultura Hungarian Foreign Trading Company. Budapest, 1988)

III. „The elephant’s head” and integrated information infrastructure for developing countries

149 Preamble I. Conceptual changes by the UN in information policy for development The formulation of the problem of information transfer. An integrated approach to information policy. II

. The typology of the UN information systems The criteria and categorization of information functions. III. How is information managed by the UN? A simplified scheme of the information policy and its management and financing by the United Nations. Scheme A. IV. An attempt to integrate UN information systems into a real network Some steps to change the situation. The schemes of an integrated United Nations information system: B —F. V. A new approach to information transfer for developing countries: the Applied Information Centres - AIC AICs as "focal points". The prototype of an AIC. Scheme G. for the setting up of AICs. VI. Conclusions Notes