Harnessing Big Data for Sustainable Development in Nigeria

Odhiambo, Ojijo; Umar, Fatima

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“…Our experience developing new data norms and standards can help address security, ethics and privacy concerns. 2 [2] Our technical and sector expertise ensures that the solutions are relevant, robust and customized to local contexts. Our world class knowledge and learning can support capacity building and local integration with its solutions.…”

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Using Big Data Analysis

Nashrah¹,

Khan²,

Khanam³

2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICT for Digital, Smart, and Sustainable Development, ICIDSSD 2020, 27-28 Feb

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India is having great period of prosperity and importance of sustainable development is increasing day by day. Two thirds of countries economic output is generated from cities, as a result of which large number of Indians have started migrating to urban areas to find employment. By 2030, it is predicted that about sixty eight cities of India will have more than one million inhabitants and six megacities with more than ten million each .Rapid growth in cities give rise to many challenges like limited access to sufficient health care and not enough power supply. City development and planning is crucial for sustainable development in order to meet the challenges of continued growth without destroying the environment and social harmony.

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Using Big Data Analysis

Nashrah¹,

Khan²,

Khanam³

2021

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on ICT for Digital, Smart, and Sustainable Development, ICIDSSD 2020, 27-28 Feb

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“…This involves systematic gathering and recording of demographic and housing information from the total population (Odhiambo and Umar, 2019). It is usually conducted every ten years.…”

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The Critical Role of Data in Nigeria’s Development: An Assessment

Udeh¹,

Akpan²

2020

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The Critical Role of Data in Nigeria's Development: An Assessment 1. Introduction Man has moved progressively from the stone age to modern civilization. In the cause of that progression, they have been mistakes, frustrations, lessons and breakthroughs. One key component of man's progression has been the role of science. Science is organized and systematic body of knowledge aimed at verifiable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science makes use of observations, facts, figures, data and statistics. These variables are the core building blocks of science and development. In other words, societal development hinges on the premium placed on the building blocks of science. Nations that are developed today had long realized the importance and indispensability of scientific data to development. Development itself entails all the modern advances in science and technology, in democracy and social organization fused into the single humanitarian project of deliberately and cooperatively producing a better world for all (Peet and Hartwick, 2009). Development is not heavenly or magical, it is deliberately planned and executed on earth by man. But it needs critical inputs such as facts, figures, statistics or broadly speaking data. Remember that in elementary economics, we answer these questions: What to produce? How to produce? And for whom? These questions are important today as they were when they were first asked. Answers to these questions require real time data. Development planning must utilize raw data. Demography of the state i.e., total population, gender distribution, age distribution, labour force etc. Nigeria clearly have issues in this regard. For instance, census which supposed to be conducted every ten years was last conducted by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006. Nigeria was due for census in 2016. To date in 2020, Nigeria is still waiting for census that should have been conducted in 2016. Without valid census figures, where does planning begin? Population and housing census provide information for development planners: schools needed and where, housing needs, hospital needs, water needs, employment needs, available skills etc. On the flip side, Ajakaiye (2015:142) raises doubt on even the limited data that may be available in Nigeria noting, 'in an environment characterized by corrupt practices, data generated by statutory bodies are unlikely to be reliable even if the requisite skills are present in the relevant institutions. The integrity of administrative data from the MDAs may be contaminated by the perceived or real implications for budgetary allocations. The result is that the expectation that accurate and comprehensive administrative data will flow regularly from MDAs remains unfulfilled'. Nonetheless, the outbreak of Novel Corona Virus Pandemic (COVID-19) in China in the twilight of 2019, but, has now spread to nearly all nations, took the world by surprise. It has exposed Nigeria's nakedness once more. Actually, no nation seems to have been fully prepared for it. It has ravaged the w...

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Harnessing Big Data for Sustainable Development in Nigeria

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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Using Big Data Analysis

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals Using Big Data Analysis

The Critical Role of Data in Nigeria’s Development: An Assessment

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