The Importance of Information and Communication Technology in our Society (A Case Study of 3,600 Business Centre, in Different Locations, of Osun State, Nigeria)
Prince Awojoodu Soji
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu
P.M.B. 5533, Ile – Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
Email: awojoodusoji@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This research work was carried out, to find the importance of (ICT), Information and Communication Technology, in the 4 Local governments, namely: (Ife East, Ife South, Ife Central and Ife North), local government areas, in Ile – Ife Kingdom of Osun State, Nigeria. 3,600 open questionnaires were distributed to 4 Local Governments, out of which 900 was used in each local government. A total of 36 different locations were visited and sampled in all the four Local Governments, out of which 100 questionnaires were used in each location. It was gathered that above 65% of the people from the four local governments, supported that ICT), Information and Communication Technology, in our society, was important while below 35% of the people could not even understand whether Information and Communication Technology, has importance or not. The results from the questionnaires when using Pearson two-tailed correlation coefficient revealed that there was no significant difference from the summary data collected within the four local government visited and sampled, (p < 0.01) table 5. It therefore showed clearly that the above 65% of the people who supported that (ICT), Information and Communication Technology, in our society was important, has become a reality, (p < 0.01) table 5. The reasons may be due to the fact that, there was only a few aspects of our life nowadays which are unaffected by ICT for example, in the office, factory or at home, visiting a bank, supermarket or garage and in many other places, etc. Pie chart was used to depict the summary data of each of the local government areas sampled in Ile – Ife Kingdom, of Osun State Nigeria.
