A Comparative Study of E-Government Evaluation of Nigeria and Singapore
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2019-06-12
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Department of Local Government, Obafemi Awolowo university, Ile-Ife
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The implementation of e-government in Nigerian was made possible with the ICT revolution which started in the early 2000s. The objective was to place government services online to enable efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability. The Nigerian government has contributed significant investments in e-government in recent years; however, there has been inadequate substantive study into its evaluation. Therefore, the primary aim of this paper is to assess e-government condition in Nigeria with the aid of the United Nations e-government evaluation framework in contrast with the performance of the Republic of Singapore (2008 – 2016) which is a country that rose steadily in the e-government ranking to become one of the league leaders in e-government in the world at the moment. From the results generated, it can be deduced that Singapore has reached an advanced stage of e-government while Nigeria still lags behind. Significant gaps are evidenced in the Online Service Index and Telecommunication Infrastructure Index which is an indication that Nigeria must step up her ICT infrastructure most especially in the area of broadband. Also, create a sophisticated user friendly government websites to deliver seamless services to the people.
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E-government, Nigeria, Singapore, United Nations