Iyoha, F. O. and Olugbenga, Jinadu and Ayo, C. K. and Gberevbie, D.E. and Ojeka, Stephen (2016) E-Government Adoption and Environmental Bonuses: A Study of Nigeria and United Kingdom. In: 16th European Conference on e-Government, 16-17 June 2016, University of Ljubljana Slovenia.
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The research work borders on e-government and environmental bonuses in Nigeria and United Kingdom The study examines whether the use of online government services could produce significant savings in the use of papers, filing cabinets, folders and shelves in offices. The study specifically seeks to find out whether there is significant difference in Egovernment adoption on paper usage and pollution reduction between Nigeria and United Kingdom. A survey study research method was adopted where 24 federal ministry activities in Nigeria was compared with that of the United Kingdom with the use of the secondary method of data collection. Levene’s test of equality of variances based on F-value and T-test were used for the data analysis based on statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 15. The result showed a statistical non-significant relationship between e-government adoption in Nigeria and UK. The statistical non-significance could be attributed to nonimplementation of e-government in Nigeria. The research also revealed that there is significant difference in E-government adoption on paper usage and pollution reduction between Nigeria and United Kingdom. This therefore shows that Nigeria requires policies to speed the processes for implementing e-government in its agencies to save paper work, filing cabinets, folders, shelves in offices, boost productivity, make information sharing easier, and generally help the environment. Based on the foregoing, the study recommends that the Nigerian government should increase the use of the internet among its citizens that will later transform into widespread usage of e-government. This process will help the government improve on the revenue generation while at the same time deliver its promises to the electorate while contributing to environmental savings. The contribution of this research to literature and knowledge is that e-government has been able to reduce the environmental impact of papers, save cost, boost productivity, make information sharing easier, and generally help the environment.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | document management, e-governance, environmental bonuses, environmental impact, paperless office |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5601 Accounting |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Hannah Akinwumi |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2017 15:38 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2017 15:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/8482 |
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