INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN NIGERIA: AN IMPLEMENTATION ASSESSEMENT
Hussaini Tukur Hassan
Department of Public Administration
Nasarawa State University, Keffi
Email: hthassan2004@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This study attempts to assess the Information and Communication Technology policy implementation. The policy was adopted in 2001 due to a genuine and urgent need for the potential of the technology to bring about rapid socio-economic, educational, scientific and technological development in all sector of national development. The impact of ICTs in the development and upliftment of the people can never be underestimated. To ensure the effective implementation of the policy, government set up the National Information Technology Development Agency. In the last decade the agency has made efforts to ensure the policy is implementated. Using the documentary research method, the study assessed the policy implementation, the challenges of implementation as well as the efforts to overcome them.it concluded that no substantiial success were recorded and many aspects left more to be disire. It recommended the review of the policy objectives, establisment of policy funding mechanism and a stakeholders forum for collaborative efforts in policy implementation,