ABSTRACT
This global modern technologies in the
nineties had been such a glaring and widely exciting experience. This leaves no body even a Thomas in doubt of
what situation and trend will look like even as we are now in the 21st
century.
Expectedly, there will be an era of
complete and total information revolutionary Age. This period which is entire world finds
themselves how is a peculiar and highly sophisticated communication age that is
characterized by a “Net-compact
technology”.
In this topic of study , the role of
modern technologies in achieving communication efficiency, its very unfortunate
and most painful that as the rest of the world are now in the modern
information technology, Nigeria and in fact the whole of African continent is
still so abysmally bondaged and far from this information paradise and communication age. This study aims at assessing critically the
function of modern technologies in the course
of acheving efficiency in communication in Nigeria.
One can therefore review that the contention was
that instead of moving ahead with others, we had decided to go backwards and
abysmally into the remote ancestral enclave of our fore fathers.
The
statistical instrument used in deriving the sample size is the questionnaire
which was distributed randomly to some students in tertiary institutions, civil
servants and also some communication executives.
Nigeria needs to be in line with
modern technologies in the race towards achieving efficiency in
communication. And therefore, it
recommended that Nigeria
government should start to support some information and communication
programmes and projects which will be capable of turning round the communication
culture turning round the communication culture to the yearnings and
aspirations of Nigerians.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE
PAGE…………………………………………………… I
DEDICATION…………………………………………………. ii
APPROVAL……………………………………………………..iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT……………………………………… iv
TABLE OF
CONTENT………………………………………... v
ABSTRACT……………………………………………………. Vi
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY……………………… 1
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM……… 4
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY………………………… 7
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY……………………… 9
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS……………………………… 10
1.6 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES……………………………. 11
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS………………………………. 12
1.8 ASSUMPTIONS…………………………………………. 14
1.9 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY……… 15
REFERENCES……………………………………… 16
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 SOURCES OF LITERATURE………………………. 17
2.2
MODERN
TECHNOLOGY IN
THE
FINANCIAL MARKET………………………….. 21
2.3
THIRD WORLD LEADERS; FEAR AND OPINION TOWARDS
THE
MODERN TECHNOLOGY…………………………. 27
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 RESEARCH METHOD………………………………… 31
3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN………………………………….. 32
3.3 RESEARCH POPULATION AND SAMPLE………….. 33
3.4 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES…………………………….. 34
3.5 MEASURING INSTRUMENT…………………………… 35
3.6 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION…………………… 35
3.7 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS……………………… 36
3.8 EXPECTED RESULTS…………………………………. 36
REFERENCES…………………………………. 38
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
4.1 DATA
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS…………. 40
4.2 DISCUSSION ON RESULTS……………………….. 53
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION
5.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS………………………… 56
5.2 CONCLUSION……………………………………… 59
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS…………………………… 61
BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………... 74
APPENDIX I …………………………………………… 66
APPENDIX II ………………………………………….. 68
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The key to success in the global
technology is to celebrate technology the
global technology is to celebrate
technology rather than hide it away and to really start developing it where
nothing has been done “Masayuki Kukokowa (Japanese).
This new or modern information
technology I networked or webbed information.
This metamorphic transformation points increasingly to practical terms,
a global information technology.
It is best described as a new
millennium. It is compact,
sophisticated, revolutionary, goal-oriented and to sum up, a complex but
cherishable culture of the new society.
BILL GATE as a giant in the present information technology ushered in
the webbed information global
phenomena. The west as well as the North
have shown tremendously a growing wave
and crave for information revolution.
Nigeria has remained in an abysmal trance and has
steadily watched the rest of the world
being ahead of her in the present dispensation.
Improvement takes two things, creativity and experience. What this study emphasize is the place of
modern technologies in achieving communication efficiency and argument for our
critigue is not whether Nigeria
has shown any interest in modern technologies
but the extent to which
these modern technologies have helped in achieving communication
efficiency in the new millennium. When a
retrospect is made, I easily recall that
communication got its name from the
Latin name “Communis” meaning show commonness.
This further implies an exchange of ideas, values, thinking and
orientations among people from different geographical, political, economic,
social, cultural, religious and then lingual expressions.
The history of communications and information technology
dates back to Shakespearean “ACTADIURA” and plausible information
invention. Successively and very glaring, society is dynamic and so is the
communication word. The parries
primitive Egyptian technologist become the “IN THING” crude as it was, it served the same purpose any
other model can serve today.
Gutenberg came
and endowed the world with letter and
printing presses. It was an era of
a blood based catalytic information
outreached and development. As society
continued to grow, move and move horizons were exposed and humanity
(technologists) availed themselves of the opportunity and then as far back as 1859, a Reverend gentleman by name
Henry Townsend after looking for a better way to reach the illiterate interior
Nigeria societies established the first Newspaper, “IWE-IROHIN’. A paper for the Egbe and Yorubas. The transformation continued through the
electronic media channels; Television, Radio and others. Thus, the present millennium where the
internet operations, digital phones, keeping compact systems, cellular mobile
systems, computerized data-base information inventions, e-mails,
Fax-technologies which take the domain
of the global information is to only exciting but interesting. T.W. Kang-a Tokoyo based business consultant
noted that “The real purpose of the new information technology is to increase
efficiency and competitiveness.
Not only that
the entire national technological culture
is in a sorry state, communication is suffering an even deadlier
scourge. There is no opportunity for
creativity, skill and experience, research and other things capable of
engendering positivism in the information environment are lacking.
Strange is the
problem in Nigerian that this study faces one singular problem of finding out
the rate of communication efficiency in the face of the modern information technology. The information technology being referred to
have will not only serve to educate, socialize,
entertain and crystallize ideas but the
type that will bring us nearer to the rest of the world in the minute
lapse of time within unimaginable distance.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE
RESEARCH PROBLEM
“The world is
dynamic and so is every thing inside it” Professor
Rosecoe Pound.
With the above
excerpt, it is primarily clear that the global information culture is changing
and never static. This change has
created a venue for improvement and sophistication of man’s efforts towards
technology prowess. Good enough, it is
true though a bitter fact that this technological success has equally been
unfriendly in some considerations. The
race forward id such that no one individual, group or society can readily
afford to miss it. The understanding of this promise and its
appreciation brings the problems of this study into focus.
This study has
the first and most obvious problems of X-raying the role of modern technology in achieving
communication efficiency. Nigeria is at
the vantage point and hence the task of evaluating and critically assessing the
country, that is, its readiness, prepardness or other problems which will be a
challenge for this study. The journey
into the 21st century is gradual but steady. It cannot be changed and with it is the
climax of revolution in all aspects of
life of the society ie its culture, language politics, philosophy, economy, science,
religion, technology vis-à-vis the social dynamics.
I have a
strong problem in this study. The
problem is investigating the global
communication technology in the new millennium marrying it with a critical
review, a Nigerian experience. Communication
and infact our information culture,
mediocrity has replaced education and excellence cum
professionalism in our media, instead of moving to the “net” and “web” system, Nigeria is
heading back to the primitive days of oral communication. The status quo is further made sick by the
draconia laws put together by heinous politicians in an attempt to muzzle communication
efficiency. In this earnest search for a
way out, I ask and present it as and among the problems of this study the question of who becomes the BILL GATE and JAMES BACKDALE in Nigeria.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF
THE STUDY
The decision
to carry out a study, be it academic qualification
study, case study. and other
various forms of study calls to the mind a
purpose for which such study is originally intended.
Empirically
therefore this study has its primary purpose to
critically assess the Role of modern technologies in
achieving
communication efficiency as it concerns Nigeria. Happily, what we
have today with respect to communication has been a
remarkable
improvement and total manifestation mankind’s strong
spirit in the
race into the twenty first (21st) century.
This study
therefore concentrated on these notable and
ndispensable successes of the past and present and use it as
a yardstick
to determine the status quo in the nearest further. Thus information
will be laid on
the internet, E-mail, digital phones,
computer data
base, information super high way, to mention but a few. Interestingly,
the need and role all these play in our overall business,
political life,
freedom of expressions and disseminating of information and
also the
place of the modern
information technology on the question of test of
validation of potency and strength of God in the face of
internet “ever
dynamic web” that had webbed the world.
The
research will additionally buttress the discussion on how only Nigerian
has remained clumoving in this all important global race. The “Net” has become more and more
opportunity to shoot out information
from most restrictive areas and zones.
Should this be the reason why the
development of internet communication is not given a chance of motivation by
the government? The purpose of this
study once move is to analyse all these discoveries strickly coordination
without prejudice, make decision, conclusions and recommendations for the
future.
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY
The
significance of this study is without doubt enormous. It is
better
described as a revolutionary study into an entirely new age of information
technology and dissemination which has
also been known as “communication revolution” infact a millennium .
To the students and future researchers
in the same area, this study will serve as a harvest of knowledge and a
discovery of some hidden and silent ideas about the modern communication and
culture. It is axiomatic to posit here
that to the researcher personally, this study assures him of not only knowledge
but the inspirations, aspirations, zeal and will to explore more horizons in
this virgin but glaring area of communication research.
Furthermore, the study will be
beneficial to the society, organizations and her agencies will not only see the
need to imbibe the modern communication culture into their environment but
equally give support, incentive and motivation towards the sustainability of
this eventful ideas and communication agenda.
Moreover, to beginners in the communication industry, the
successes of BILL GATE and JAME BACKDALE at Microsoft America will
serve as an impetus to their concerted efforts towards recognition. This study will help them in this direction
by not only laying down the golden rule that ‘success can only come where
determination breeds” but their determination complemented by eludiluted
dedications is a hallmark of a reasonable and rational success. The discussion on the significance of this
study will not be completed if mention is not made on the role it will play in finding the solution to Nigeria’s sick
movement of his tory.
1.5
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Some
questions which this study will try to provide answers to
include:-
i.
Have you heard of the modern information technology.
ii.
Have you ever used digital system in your office
iii.
Which do you prefer most in your business, the present
digital information technology, or the crude postal communication.
iv.
Do you think that
Nigeria
is prepares for the modern information technology.
1.6
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
H1
present digital information technology is
preferable to the crude postal communication in most business
organizations.
Ho
present digital information technology
is not preferable to the crude postal communication in most business
organization.
H2
The rate of Nigeria’s
preparedness for the new information technology is at a slow pace.
H0 The
rate of Nigerian’s preparedness for
the new information
technology is not at a slow pace.
H3 The use of digital system as a modern
technology is in vogue in
most offices in Nigeria.
1.7
DEFINITION OF TERMS:
CONCEPTUALLY AND
OPERATIONALLY
In the process of conducting and final
presentation of this study, there are so many words so technical that they need
to be defined for more understanding on
the part of the audience of this study.
Such words are:
CONCEPTUALLY
TECHNOLOGY: This is an act of transmitting information and
technical method of achieving a practical purpose.
INTERNET: Are computers equipped with and
connected to
telephone and television networks.
GLOBAL
VILLAGE: It means bringing the entire
world to our
door via digital and other electronic
hypersensitive means.
PROBLEMS: A question raised for enquiring
consideration or
solution.
COMMUNICATION: The activity or process of expressing ideas
and feelings or of giving people information.
PROSPECT: Something that is extended to the view
ie looked
forward to.
(C)
PERATIONALLY
TECHNOLOGY: This is a process by which information is
exchanged between individual through a common
system of symbols and the totality of the means
employed to provide objects necessary for human
sustenance.
INTERNET: Worldwide system for sending and
receiving
electronic mail known as E-mail.
GLOBAL
VILLAGE: Embracing the whole of a
group of items
especially in a place smaller than a town.
PROBLEMS: Dealing with a question concerning human
conduct and social relationship.
PROSPECT: This means something that is awaited or
expected
to happen.
COMMUNICATION:
1.8
ASSUMPTION
The
researcher assumes that modern information technologies
are very
power and influential in achieving communication efficiency that every body
will purchase and make use of them.
All
the people within the Nigerian society should
be exposed to the full knowledge of modern information
technologies. It is assumed finally that
the result got from this research work will help to create some awareness to
the society and thereby bring in full societal development.
1.9
SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF STUDY
The
researcher limited the study within Nigerian society. The
study is limited to know the extent of what modern
information technologies have done in achieving communication efficiency in Nigeria.
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