New report has revealed that government is not pro-active in deepening government/citizen engagement on it social media despite huge amount of money disbursed by the Federal Government.
According to New Telegraph report, with over N252.3 billion budgeted by various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and 36 state governments this year to deepen e-government in Nigeria, according to BudgIT’s analysis, a new report has indicated that government does not appear to be serious in proactively adopting social media to deepen government/citizen engagement.
The new report exposed the gap between the huge amount of money budgeted by government at various levels and across different paratstatals in Nigeria and the use such huge budget in implementation Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-related projects to deepen e-government in the country.
Entitled: ‘Nigeria Public Sector Social Media Report,’ the report, came up with 10 top MDAs on social media platforms; top five best performing states on social media; poor performing MDAs on social media platforms and poor performing states on social media platforms.
The study, which was carried out between October 2016 and February 2017, particularly drew conclusion on the amount of followers and likes the states and MDAs have on their Twitter Accounts, Facebook pages, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn for staff and how often they share relevant service information to the Nigerian public, likewise their feedback mechanism.
The report was carried out by the in-house Research and Intelligence Unit of the Instinct Wave Group, an indigenous event, media consulting and research firm in the country, presenting major findings on MDAs’ and states’ level of social media adoption and engagement.
