It is a well thought idea that the present day electronic information communication has recreatedrnthe world anew. Thought different historical routes can be traced to arrive at today's informationrncommunication and exchange, no single achievement equals tile Intermit and WWW for globalrncommunication and information staring to reach the stage of development we are experiencingrntoday. Recently, organizations confronted with complexity, upward scaling, competitivernenvironment, have started to adopt Internet-Web technology as an efficient mechanism tornmanage and sit are their information resources.rnWith this view, this thesis is an attempt to improve IIRI's information resource sharing system byrnway of Intranet solutions. IIRI has experienced organizational complexity and upward scalingrnover the past recent years. A research institute with African coverage has IIOW tram formed itselfrninto an international with a scope spanning the whole of tile developing world. GivenrnIIRI's existing set lip, the work reported in this study investigated tile information resource sharingrninfrastructure at IIRI, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.rnConsidering the fact that Intranet solution requires an investigation of content, networkrninfrastructure, and access, this work has first reviewed IIRI's available resources in these lines.rnThe outcomes of tile survey work were reported along with identified problems and requirements.rnBased on existing information and network infrastructure and based 0n the needs andrnrequirements identified through the survey work, attempt was made to design tile kind of Intranetrnsolution that can address the contemplated need. The design focused on reengineering existingrninformation and network infrastructure to fit into the Intranet solution. Where changes arernrequired and what the changes involve is discussed.rnIn an attempt to demonstrate the potential use of Intranet solution, specific applications werernselected to develop the prototype. Static and dynamic web publishing through the web wasrndemonstrate(L The prototype development was based on Windows NT advanced server softwarern4.0 platform, Microsoft client for TCPIIP, Internet Information Server (lIS), Microsoft InternetrnServer Application Program Interface (ISAPI), dbf and access (mdb) ODBC drivers, visual basicrnprogramming, JavaScript, Active Server Pages, Internet Database Connection (IDC) files andrnHTML extension (htx files), Microsoft FrontPage, HoTMetaL PRO, HTML, and SunWEBrnIntranet design method.rnFinally, implementation plans and how to proceed issues were discussed. Conclusion andrnrecommendation were also made to synthesize the whole exercise attempted in this study and tornsuggest what needs to be done for Intranet deployment in ILRI as well as further research arearnalong similar lines.