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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

NG: Nigeria

  • The need for an interdisciplinary study in ICT and Law in Nigeria

    There is no doubt that the application of ICTs in almost all facets of human existence, ranging from health to commerce, has rapidly shaped and reshaped the modern world. In fact, advances in these technologies have been so fast that laws that are meant to regulate them quickly become obsolete within months, if not days after enactment. The ingenuity with which new computer technologies are being developed calls for a deeper inquiry into the interaction and impact of ICTs in any legal system. Even though new terminologies are being added into the legal dictionary, new crimes into the criminal code, the traditional mode of justice system sometimes seems to be coming increasingly obsolete. The repercussions of ICTs have to a large extent forced laws to adjust to the technology; in some cases, software code actually becomes the law. Often, we use terms such as e-commerce, e-signature, e-banking, etc, without understanding how these applications have affected our traditional mode of contract and consumer protection. We daily engage in online transactions without minding their legal consequences.

  • The Need For Computer Literacy Among Nigerian Lecturers

    With the evolvement of ICT in the 21st century, it is no wonder how youths took to the wave. Today, they seem to be more associated with the trend. Whereas this is commendable, more expectations however are on the lecturers of Nigerian higher institutions to blend with the trend as well. This is due to a spat that has risen over the level of computer literacy among Nigerian Lecturers.

    In recent times, the world has witnessed a rapid increase in technological innovations, one of which is computer. At present, the computer technology has permeated nearly all aspects of human organisational roles and education. A welcome development which is due to the benefits associated with it especially in providing a convenient technique for designing and developing dynamic interaction between students and instructional programme.

  • Towards the development of a robust national information infrastructure for Nigeria

    Nigeria had in the recent past recorded a phenomenal growth in its telecoms sector due largely to the unprecedented upsurge in demand for wireless services delivered on the platform of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). The major impetus that propelled that growth was the government's deregulation of the telecom industry spearheaded by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) as well as the keen participation of both domestic and foreign telecom firms supported by local and foreign direct funds in what was tagged "the fastest emerging telecom market in the world".

  • Transforming unemployment in Nigeria – How digital innovation can change the game

    The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Nigeria recently directed unemployed youth to register their names for possible employment in their local government areas.

    However, this approach is outdated and ineffective in the 21st century. It’s time for Nigeria to modernize through digital transformation and adopt a more efficient and effective approach to tackling the country’s unemployment challenges.

  • UN Ranks Nigeria High in E-Government Devt Index

    Effort of the country to become a digital economy has started yielding the expected results as the latest United Nations e-government development ranking showed an upward improvement by 21 points.

    Nigeria rose to 141 out of 193 countries rated in the UN Global e-government Development Index for 2014.

    Similarly, the country was also ranked 97 in the e-Participation index, an improvement of 22 points up from 75 in 2012. It would be recalled that Nigeria was ranked 162 in 2012.

  • UN Report Scores Nigeria Low in E-Governance

    A United Nations e-Government Survey for 2012, says Nigeria has dropped in e-government global development index.

    According to the report, Nigeria dropped from 0.2687 in 2010 to 0.2676 in 2012, which indicates a decrease in the level of the acceptance by both government and private individuals in the country.

    The report, which centred on e-government development in the largest population countries of the world, also indicated that Nigeria with a population of 158 million people is the least developing country among the top 11 most populated countries of the world, in terms of usage and application of e-governance by both the government and the citizens.

  • Universal Service Provision Fund plans rollout of 10,000km fibre link across Nigeria

    Rural communities shut out of the global digital community will get respite in the next three years with respect to ubiquitous access to efficient and affordable broadband services.

    The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) says it has concluded plans to deploy its Backbone Infrastructure Project (BTRAIN) Pilot Project. BTRAIN is a 1000km-fibre backbone infrastructure project under which USPF and is providing subsidy to accelerate the build-out of backbone transmission infrastructure to all local government areas in Nigeria.

  • Uwaje: Without mastery of ICT knowhow, Nigeria may be awaiting bleaker days

    ICT Varsity Can Aid Country’s Knowledge Economy Drive

    Former president, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), Chris Uwaje, in this interview with ADEYEMI ADEPETUN, said Nigeria and Nigerians must embrace the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) frontier as the emerging salvation for her current and future development. Uwaje, who is also Director-General, Delta State Innovation Hub, said that national prosperity resides in the acquisition of ICT-knowledge, skills and intelligence, as well as their effective deployment.

  • Web Transaction Security and the Nigerian Online Passport Application System

    As E-Government practices begin to evolve in developing countries like Nigeria, E-Government Professionals in these Developing Countries must become aware that customer Information processing captured at E-Government Web Sites must be guaranteed a high level of Information Transaction Security.

    The capture, and processing of Online E-Government transactions, especially for applications of a sensitive National Security nature, needs to governed with strict Information Security assurance practice.

  • WHO credits mHealth app with helping Nigeria get rid of Ebola

    The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria free of the Ebola virus transmission, and public health agencies are declaring that an mHealth initiative deserves much of the credit.

    Shortly after the WHO declared Africa's most populous country Ebola-free for 42 days Oct. 20, Nigerian Minister of Communication Technology Omobola Johnson credited a social media campaign and a real-time reporting Android app used during the outbreak as integral in containing the deadly virus.

    "The phone app helped in reducing reporting times of infections by seventy-five percent," said Johnson, speaking at the International Telecommunication Union's Plenipotentiary Conference Oct. 21. "Test results were scanned to tablets and uploaded to emergency databases, and field teams got text message alerts on their phones informing them of the results."

  • Why Nigeria Needs a National eHealth Strategy

    Mr. Job Agbo, not (real name) recently visited his doctor with chronic kneel pain. The condition was not severe enough to require a visit to the emergency department, but it kept him awake all night and interfered with his daily activities. He was given a hand-written referral to review previous films and treat according to recommendation in the report"

    He took his hand -written referral and booked for an "urgent kneel procedure" with the Radiology staff of the hospital. He came few days after for the procedure. But no one could trace his previous films or reports. The situation was compounded as no one knew where the previous films or reports were.

  • Why Nigeria should embrace 5G network – Experts

    Adopting the fifth-generation (5G) network will transform Nigeria into a ‘smart city’, improve its economic growth and migrate it to a digital economy, experts have said.

    The Computer Professionals (Registration Council of Nigeria), gave the recommendation in a communique issued at the end of its meeting on Wednesday.

  • Wireless Network Org Deploys 79 Base Stations To Nigerian Communities

    The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has said that it had deployed 79 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) in unserved and underserved communities across the country.

    The Secretary of USPF, Mr. Abdullahi Maikano, told newsmen in Lagos that the deployment of the base stations was to bridge the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) gap between viable and non-viable areas in Nigeria.

  • X-raying Nigeria’s ICT Roadmap 2017-2020

    The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Communications, has unveiled yet another policy in ICT plan with strategies to achieve some milestones in the next two years plus. Stakeholders are, however, worried that the lofty ideas in the roadmap may come to nought if allowed to go the way of previous government policies. Samson Akintaro reports few months to the expiration of the National Broadband Plan, which implementation began in 2013, Nigeria has launched yet another plan aimed at broadening the scope of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the country. Much as it came as a step in the right direction, the country’s ICT roadmap 2017-2020 also underscores the fact that government has now acknowledged ICT to be one of the most critical tools underpinning socio economic development in the 21st century.

  • ZA: Members of the public encouraged to submit their comments on a proposed Smart City project

    Muthialu said the project will also create significant economic opportunity, building on the influence of Lanseria International Airport, in the vicinity of marginalised communities like Diepsloot.

    A team of professionals who was appointed by Gauteng provincial government to draft a Greater Lanseria Master Plan said it had completed the plan and it had been made available for public comment.

    Stakeholder engagement director for Greater Lanseria Master Plan team, Nomi Muthialu said, “The draft of a Greater Lanseria Master Plan has now been completed and it has been made available for public comment during a 30-day comment period commencing on 4 November and ending at close of business on 4 December.

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