Evaluation of stakeholders perception of Nigeria NSDI using technological frame theory
Ogundele, O.A. & G.I. Agbaje
The theory of Technological Frames is useful in analyzing and understanding diverse meanings and expectations attached by different stakeholder groups around information and communication technologies (ICTs) intended to be introduced in organizations or an Information System (IS) that combine multiple organization together such as NSDI (Puri, 2006). It is very important to acknowledge the perception of stakeholders in institutionalizing a National Geo-spatial Data Infrastructure (NGDI) as this will provide an insight into what both providers and users of geo-information (GI) know and deduce from the concept of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). However, this social aspect of SDI research attracted little attention from researchers (Georgiadou and Harvey, 2007). Technological Frame is one of the concept for measuring perception of stakeholders in IS, which has not been widely used in studying NSDI. In this paper, an attempt was made to analyze stakeholders' interest, knowledge and value for NGDI in Nigeria using Technological Frame theory. This is to identify their perception as one of the factors to be considered in the NGDI implementation in Nigeria. This paper will serve as confirmatory for earlier researches and also create a keyhole view into the situation of NGDI development and acceptance in Nigeria. More importantly, findings from this research is a helpful information that is appropriate for National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) which is one of the spatial data producer and coordinator of the NGDI - managing collaboration amongst stakeholders and setting coordination strategies.
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