CHAPTER ONE

1.0   INTRODUCTION

1.1   BACKGROUND TO STUDY

The revolution in IT as of late, relevantly caught by the foundation and access to a worldwide network administration of Information frameworks, has emphatically affected time and space in the sending and recovering of Information, both inside and crosswise over various organizations and furthermore among diverse countries and areas. This advancement has achieved extreme changes in the manner by which choices are come to and approaches executed in those organizations. Countries that have electronic correspondence systems, emerging from advancements in Information innovation, have made practicable on-line access to an assortment of specialized and non-specialized Information, and have transformed the world into a virtual working environment. In encouraging the move towards a more open and comprehensive worldwide framework, the worldwide dissemination and use of advancements in IT, have no uncertainty influenced commitments to the worldwide scan for productive and viable answers for squeezing to and regularly mind boggling, neighborhood, provincial and worldwide issues.

The diffusion of IT innovations, embodied in a vastly improved computing and telecommunications capacity, has generally been weak in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan African countries. However, a strong interest in its adoption to provide information services, has emerged in recent years in the continent for two main reasons. First, the revolution in IT has resulted in computer hardware becoming cheaper and more widely available. Secondly, the substantial utility (value added) of IT in the provision of, and access to information services for improved planning and management, has become more widely recognized.

Technology diffusion in the recipient country is a multi-stage process which commences with acquisition of the technology and finally, the installation, utilization and assimilation of the technology. The assimilation process is the most crucial, because it involves adaptation to the local environment. In the past several decades, the failure experienced by many developing countries, including Nigeria, which have imported foreign technology worth billions of dollars, has been traceable to failure in the assimilation process. Hence, our framework is premised on the prevailing environment in Nigerian organizations and how the technology of electronic networking can be successfully adapted for the effective and efficient management of these organizations.

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