The development of informatics has given an important stimulus to almost all the human activity sectors in this last quarter of the century, namely in fields like engineering, research, organization management, etc. This is indubitable for the most developed countries. However this is not yet true for the developing countries, and especially for the African countries, although many cases of information technology transfers have been tried since the first days of computing. From experiences acquired through working with teams associated with information system transfer and management in Côte d'Ivoire d'Ivoire, this research aims to summarize the problems that restrain the mastery and the development of the information technology in the Third World, especially in African countries. The secondary effects of the transferred information technology on the society are also analyzed.

An encoding scheme (FLSOPC) is presented as a new data compression method. The generated fixed-length codes are preserving the order on the original data representations in the sense of semiorder preservation as defined in this paper. The FLSOPC employing binary sectioning assignment algorithm requires the code size that is linear to logarithm of the data cardinality. It is about 2.8 times that required by FLMB (fixed-length minimum bit) encoding when no knowledge about data is given a priori. This factor can be reduced to 2.1 if a half of data has been available as the initial load and approaches 1 when even more data is known.