E-Govemance and E- Participation: Panaceas for Effective Mobilization of Manpower and Resources in Selected Local Governments in Ogun State.
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E-governance and e-participation are
important stages in the advancement of government
processes. They both offer great opportunities as well as
new challenges despite the opportunities they offer; they
also introduce new challenges especially in Nigeria with
emphasis on selected local governments in Ogun State. Egovernance
is a new phenomenon in African countries and
Nigeria is fast aligning into it, with the aim of addressing
many challenges attached to development in Nigeria. AdoOdo/
Ota, Sagamu, Yewa South, Abeokuta South and Ijebu
Ode local governments function primarily along the
traditional colonial administrative system. Features of this
system are bureaucracy, nepotism top-bottom chain
command structure, et cetera. Hence, problems of this age
long governance are legion which e-governance presumably
appears to solve. Under a full-fledged e-governance, system
optimization of resources is paramount. Despite all known
benefits of e-governance, many challenges are embedded in
the system. Changes are often hindered, due to lack of
confidence in the process and there is the perceived
displacement of personnel through application of
information communication technology (ICT). This study
considers sectoral aggregation of local government systems
such as personnel, community development or relations,
Infrastructural needs, spatial environment, etc. Structured
and unstructured interviews will be conducted and
questionnaires were administered in order to gather data in
areas of education, health, recreation, electricity, water
supply, empowerment, waste management, traffic control
and security. This study specifically evaluated the personnel's
understanding of ICT application in governance and
community or public participation and exercise of civic
responsibility. The research design utilized both descriptive
and survey approach in its method of data collection. In
order to realize the objectives of the current study, the
method of data analysis involved both descriptive analysis
with the use of frequencies and percentage distributions in
analyzing the basic information of the targeted audience.
The formulated hypotheses were subjected to statistical
validation using multivariate regression analysis. This
methodological approach enabled us ascertain whether
there exists any significance relationship between eGovernance
and effective mobilization of manpower and
resources considering the selected local government areas
for this study. Judgmental sampling procedure were
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JA Political science (General), QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science