Abstract :
Computer scientists in developing nations such as India and mainland China face daunting challenges in keeping pace with their colleagues in more advanced countries. India´s faulty infrastructure, which hobbles collaboration among scientists there, is discussed. The problems surrounding China´s outdated equipment, which sometimes forces its researchers to construct paper machines to study computing problems, are described. The prospects of the United Nation´s International Institute for Software Technology (IIST), which opened in Macau in the Summer of 1992, are reviewed.<>
