INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FORSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA – A REVIEW
Abstract
Most African countries, including Nigeria, are not on course to realize the millennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015. Poverty level towers higher, as well as income inequality. This is not the case in the “information-rich†developed countries, where socio-economic sustainable development is powered by information communications technologies (ICTs). This paper argues that ICTs will provide the targeted tools for and facilitate sustainable development in Nigeria, if adopted faster than the progression shown for earlier technologies.References
OCED (2004), “The e-Government Imperative,†Retrieved on 28th May, 20010 from www.oecd.org.
United Nations Development Program (2003), “Millennium Development Goals: A Compact among Nations to End Human Poverty,†in Human Development report, New York: Oxford University press.
M.P. Todaro and S.C. Smith (2009), Economic Development, London: Pearson Education Limited.
O.P. Obasi (2002), “Overview on Global Observing Systems in support of Sustainable Development,†Keynote address presented on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Forum on Science and Technology innovation for sustainable development, Johannesburg, South Africa.
H.M. Ravnborg and O. Westermann (2002), “Understanding interdependencies: stakeholder identification and negotiation for collective natural resource management,†Agricultural System, 73(1): 41-56.
P.T. Jaeger (2002), “Constitutional principles and e-governmentâ€: an opinion about possible effect of the Federalism and the separation of powers on e-government policies, Government Information Quaterly, 19(4): 357-368.
United Nations (1987), Our Common Future, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
United Nations Development Programme, UNDP (2001), “Human development reportâ€, Making New Technologies Work for Human Development, New York: Oxford University Press.
B. Hughes and P. Johnston (2005), “Sustainable future,†Policies for global development future, 3(8): 813-831.
J. O’Brien (2003), “Management Information Systems†Managing Information Technology in the E- Business Enterprise, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York.
J.O. Akinyede (2003), “Nigeria and its Space Missionâ€, GIM International, 17(2): 13-15.
K. Laudon and J. Laudon (2003), Management Information Systems, 8ed, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
R.V.S. Raj, R.T. Arunachaaram, S. Eswaran and N. Barakrishan (2004), “Mythology and Reality of Digital Divide Problem,†Sustainable ICT for Emerging Economies, 8: 78-91.
A. Pouloudi and E. White (1997),
“Stakeholder Identification in Interorganizational System: Gaining Insights for Drug Use Management System,†European Journal of Information Systems, 6:1, 1-14.
S. Lopez-Riddaura, O.R. Masera and M. Astier (2002), “Evaluating sustainability of complex socio-environmental systems: the MESMIS Framwork,†Ecological indicators 35: 1-14.
Lannin and Quiang (2003), “Poverty Eradication: Using ICT to meet MDGs - Direct and indirect Roles of e-maturity,†in Dutta, Lanvin and Paua (eds.) Global IT Report 2003-04, London: Oxford University Press.
L.A. Joil (2004), “Developing Government-to-Government enterprises in Brazilâ€: a heuristic model drawn from multiple case studies, International Journal of Information Management, 24(2): 147-166.
B. Galliers (1998), “Reflections on BPR, IT and Organisational Change†in Galliers, R.D and Bates, W.R.J (eds.) Information Technology and Organizational Transformation, Chichester: John Willy& Sons.
I. Ezz (2003), “Towards E-Government Adoption: Some Organizational Challenges for the Egyptian Government,†Proceedings of the 15th International Business Information
Management Conference, Cairo.
A.A. Abiodun (2002), “Space Technology and its Role in Sustainable Development,†Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K.
M. Themistocleou, Z. Irani, J. Kuljis and E.D. Love (2004), “Extending the Information System Lifecycle through Enterprise Application Integrationâ€: A case study Experience, Proceedings of
the 37th Hawaii International
Conference on System Science, Retrieved May 5th 2010from http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedi ngs/hicss/2004/2056/08/205680228b.pd f
R. Cyert, P.K. Kumer and J.R. Williams (1993), “Information market imperfection and Strategy,†Strategic Management Journal, 14: 47-58.
J.D. Duck (1998), “The art of balancing†in Kotter, J.P. (ed.) Harvard Business Review Change, Harvard: The Art Publishing.
T. Davenport and J. Short (1990), “The New Industrial Reengineering: Information Technology and Business Process Redesign,†Sloan Management Review, 31(4): 11-2
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.
