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WEEK 3
TOPIC: E-Government.
CONTENT
(a) Meaning: Use of computers or ICT in government business or Activities.
(b) Areas: Nigerian Immigration Service, Nigerian Custom Services, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), JAMB, WAEC, NECO.
(c) Other Uses: website, e-mail, network of offices.
(d) Advantages and disadvantages.
SUB – TOPIC 1: Meaning: Use of Computers or ICT in Government Business or Activities.
E-Government refers to the use of information technology by government agencies (such as relations with citizens, business and other arms of government). Traditionally, the interactions between a citizen or business and a government agent took place in a government office. With emerging information and communication technologies, it is possible to locate service centre close to the clients. It can thus be said that e-government is a tool to achieve better governance.
Project Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (Project NOAH) This is a responsive program for disaster prevention and mitigation providing a 6-hour lead-time warning to vulnerable communities against impending floods. The project makes use of radar, Doppler, and other sensing technologies to map out rainfall, and other geo-hazards such as landslides. The project’s use of Internet technologies, social media, and its collaboration with the country’s top mobile phone service providers maximizes the potentials of ICT for crisis management, disaster preparedness, mitigation and response.
- eSerbisyo These are government online websites that cater to general the general public for information, government forms, government services and weather.
- eBayad This is an electronic payment gateway for government agencies using various internet payment options like credit cards and mobile wallets to enable Filipinos to pay online for requested government services taken from eSerbisyo.
Uses of Information and Communication Technology.
- It can be used to store vital information about the members of staff of government establishment.
- It can be used to store vital information about government activities instead of carrying files about.
- Workers in government establishments can be educated through the ICT.
- It can be used to check necessary messages from time to time e.g. e-mail.
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