A Caring Heart Program Enhancement in Ondo State through Augmented E-Government Implementation Code:[S43NH33]

Abstract

Abstract:This study appraised e-Government implementation in Ondo state government ministries, agencies and departments. It determined the availability of e-Government resources and infrastructure, the stage of e-government implementation and the challenges. Siau and Long, 2005 five phase of e-Government model was used for analysis. Survey design approach was adopted. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire administered to the Director of IT and administrators in the ministries, agencies and departments, result shows 96.42% participation. Collected data were structured into grouped frequency distributions. Findings revealed that Ondo state had made an entrance into e-Government. Resources and infrastructure for e-Governance were available and the State was found to be at the second phase (interaction) of eGovernment process and has not effectively demonstrated its capacity to progress towards the higher phases of e-government.The study indentified factors that inhibit the implementation of e-Government in Ondo state and recommended how egovernment implementation can be further improved in order to accomplished various present and future government programs and delivered the present and future expectation of citizen, Ondo state vision 20: 2020 and make it a truly Sunshine state. This research work is done using Ondo state as study case; it can be apply to any state in developing countries.