ACCESS TO COMMUNICATION BASED TECHNOLOGY AS A PANACEA FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AMONG FACULTY OFFICERS IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
ACCESS TO COMMUNICATION BASED TECHNOLOGY AS A PANACEA FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AMONG FACULTY OFFICERS IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
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2022-09
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Suleiman, Hussaini
Goshie, Rhoda Wusa
Jaafar, Sani
Jimada, Aisha
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Abstract
This article was undertaken to investigate Access to Communication based Technology as a
Panacea for Knowledge Management among Faculty Officers in Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study was guided by two research questions and
objectives. The research methodology was purely quantitative and a descriptive research
design was used. The study population includes 108 Faculty Officers in the five Ahmadu
Bello University Teaching Hospital Schools, Shika Zaria. Yamani's formula was used to
determine the target population sample of 91 respondents. A questionnaire was used to
collect data. A simple random sampling method was used as the sampling method to collect
data from the study area. The tool was subjected to face and content validity. The pilot study
was conducted at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria’s main campus, which was outside the key
study areas but with similar characteristics, and was also tested for reliability using a splithalf
test, and obtained a reliability coefficient of 0.81. Data were analyzed using descriptive
statistics and Statistical Package for Social Science version 21.0. Among other things, the
results of the study showed that the greater part of respondents indicated that email, online
relay chats, Internet telephony, instant messaging, web services, and video conferencing were
the types of Internet facilities or services required and accessible for Ahmadu Bello
University Faculty Officers Shika Zaria Most respondents indicated that some of the factors
that discourage the use of Internet facilities by Faculty Officers are lack of Internet access
and inappropriate research on Internet skills. It recommended, among other things, that the
management of Ahmadu Bello University Hospital, Shika, Zaria, should make more computer
systems available to the Faculty Officers in the various schools of the institution to allow
them unproblematic access to the Internet facilities.
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2ND PLWO International Conference on Transformation of Knowledge
Repository into Knowledge Economy (ICKE-2022) organized by Pakistan
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2022 (Virtual Conference)