Information And Communication Technology In Nigeria

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunication, and computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems that enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. Developing countries is a nation with a lower living standard, underdeveloped industrial base, and low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

Moreover, since the late 1990s, developing countries tended to demonstrate higher growth rates than the developed ones. Developing countries are defined according to their

Solution that could have in preventing the problem from becomes more serious. The existences of the issues that relate to the ICT also have their own solution. According to the article “Integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into Technical and Engineering Education in Nigeria: Potentialities, Problem, and Strategies”, the Nigeria country have their own solutions in solving the issues that happens because of the ICT. Firstly, their solution in helping the ICT to be more reliable in Nigeria is setting of guidelines. It is recommended that the guidelines of using the ICT be set up for technical and engineering education teacher so that they could know how to apply the ICT in their teaching technique (Shehu, I, Y. and et al,

As we known, teachers are the person that plays the important roles in building the incredible country. They were the persons that closed to the students. Everything that they give was the contributor to the country productivity. If they give the wrong information to the students, that is how the productivity will be produce. Having the best teachers in producing the most skills and talented students is necessarily. Professional training on the use of ICT in education should be more organized and make it compulsory to the teachers in Nigeria in whatever field they are. By using this way, the courses and seminars should be organized from time-to-time to make the teachers get the update of the learning ICT (Shehu, I, Y. and et al, 2012). Lastly, the solution from the issues that relate to the ICT in Nigeria is enhancement of IT infrastructures. Infrastructures could mean the building which is the classroom, the ICT room which consist of hardware and software in using the ICT. The facilities that we think the wider application of ICT should make available into the classrooms by the government because it will really helping in order to increase the standard of the students. In this thing, special security rules and regulation should be issued and positive habits should be formed in schools (Shehu, I, Y. and et al,