e-governance in community-based poverty reduction strategies
Sanjo Faniran, Kayode Olaniyan · 2008
This paper highlights the opportunities for e-government strategies in the implementation of Nigeria's Community Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy CEEDS, and details some possible architectural configuration and infrastructural requirements. Using satellite-based communication, the proposed e-government model links up government to citizens (G2C) such that communities can identify their desired projects, communicate with government, implement the project and also provide feedback to the government. Simultaneously, the model enables government to improve programme implementation by identifying opportunities for infrastructure-sharing among contiguous communities, identifying optimal financial resource and risks combination in a cost-efficient manner as well as undertaking monitoring and evaluation of project implementation. It concludes that the citizens would be better off if this technology is deployed in a measured and coordinated way, further leading to the emergence of model e-communities in Nigeria.