Implementation of E-Government in Nigerian Pu]blic Sector: Problems and Prospects

The quest for a better administrative idea have been the major concern of countries in the world in a bid to foster efficiency and effectiveness in the public service. E-government has become a vital component of public sector reform mostly to the developing countries because of its instrumentality in transforming public sector by enhancing citizen’s participation, monitoring and evaluation, government accountability and transparency, efficiency and effective service delivery. Nigeria is not left out in seizing the opportunity of adopting e-government into it public service. In the light of this, the Nigerian government established the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in 2003 to serve as the driving agency for implementation. Therefore, this paper examines the Implementation of e-government in Nigerian Public sector. It is a conceptual paper that relies primarily on existing literature. The paper makes a clear distinction between e-government and e-governance as it further identifies those product of e-government. The paper concludes that e-government is more than just a government on the website meant to links ministries, departments, parastatals and local governments but the strategies to enable government effectuates representation and regulation; public service delivery or information dissemination as well engage and partner with each other and other stakeholders. The paper recommends that there is need for value reorientation and attitudinal change and there should be first of all value reorientation and change of attitudes of our public servants towards computer system. Keywords: E-government, E-governance, Implementation, Information and Communication Technology, Public Sector