Stephen Mutula is an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Zululand. He is also the head of the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University of Botswana. He holds a PhD and master���s degree in information science, a postgraduate diploma in computer science, and a bachelor���s degree in education from the Universities of Johannesburg (SA), Wales (UK), and Nairobi (Kenya), respectively. Prof. Mutula is the author of Web-based information management: A cross disciplinary text, and is also the co-editor of Information and Knowledge Management in the Digital Age: Concepts, Technologies and African Perspectives (Third World Information Services, Ibadan, Nigeria). He serves on several international editorial boards and has won several authorship awards, including the University of Botswana���s Researcher of the Year Award (2006 and 2007), and three Emerald Literati Club authorship excellence awards. He was also the recipient of a scholarly excellence award from the Standing Committee of East, Central, and Southern African Librarians (SCECSAL) in 2000 in Windhoek, Namibia. At the time of writing this book, he was a visiting professor at the Department of Information Science, University of Zululand, South Africa