ABSTRACT
The seminar work focused on ICT that improves government in Nigeria, such as the use of technologies like phones internet access, radio, television card reader, ATM, dust, traffic light etc. to improve governance in Nigeria. Its reduces poverty by creating more skilled work, Educate people by creating room for learning thereby reducing the rate of people ignorance in our society. ICT assist in developing all parts of the country including Hospital Areas, the country should adopt this technology not as foreign culture but as a tool for its own use which to help improve the people standard of living/ ignorance.
INTRODUCTION
Governance can be defined as the process through which institutions, business, and citizen groups articulate their interests, exercise their right and obligation and mediate their difference. According to one of the members on the African Development Forum Discussion Group, Governance comprises: the traditions, institutions and processes that determines how power is exercised, how citizens are given voice and how decisions are made on issues of public concern.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) can help to sustain this process in three ways:
- They can support tasks that involve complex decision making, communication and decision implementation.
- They can automate tedious tasks done by humans and
- They can support new tasks and processes that did not exist before. When ICT is properly aligned with governance goals, they can help to create gain in both efficiency and effectiveness.
There is tremendous optimism that such gains can help address the main governance challenge on how to solve grave economic and social crisis with meagre resources. An example of a well thought of application around shows that ICT can help to:
- Reduce poverty by creating a more skilled work force and increasing the penetration of aid subsidies to the unprivileged.
- Provide basic needs by improving the quality of healthcare, providing educational opportunities, planning for basic service delivery and helping to improve agricultural productivity and commerce.