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Introduction The term ‘infopreneurship’ is a relatively new term in the discipline of Library and Information Science (LIS), although its function has been in existence ever since the beginning of information consulting and brokering. Coulson–Thomas (2000), in his article entitled “Developing and supporting information entrepreneurs”, describes infopreneurs as information entrepreneurs. McCreadie and Rice in Ikoja-Odongo and Mostert (2006) describe information as a commodity or resource. They go further to characterize it as a physical commodity that can be produced, purchased, replicated, distributed, manipulated, passed along, controlled, traded and sold. Du Toit (2000) defines the term ‘entrepreneur’ as that particular individual in society who takes the lead as well as the risk in mobilizing the production factors (natural resources, human resources and capital) in specific combinations to produce products and services for his or her community. A closer look reveals that informati

Demystifying Development  it is necessary to stress that: Development covers both theory and practice, that is both ideas about how development should or might occur, & real world efforts to put various aspects of development into practice Potter et..al 2004 Development involves 3 things  Development theories Development strategies Development ideologies Development Theories:  regarded as sets of ostensibly logical propositions which aim to explain how development has occurred in the past and/or how it should occur in the future Either be: Normative- genaralise about what should happen or be the case in an ideal world Positive- in the sense of dealing with what has generally been the case in the past Development Strategies:  practical paths to development which may be pursued by countries; NGOs or indeed individuals, in an effort to stimulate change within particular regions & continents. Hettre 1995 -efforts to change existing economic & social structures &a