| Title: | Communicating Big Data for Realisation of Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria |
| Author(s): | Ifeyinwa Nsude & Samuel Chukwuemeka Nwamini |
| Abstract: | The new data-centric world is gradually revolutionising approaches through which human creates value to her environment. The new world order has continued to shape human actions towards the use of data in targeting development agenda. Managing big data for economic and social development has in the recent past generated a lot of research interest especially in the social science cycle. It is evident that varying degrees of data are being generated through multiple data ecosystem. The study adopted exploratory research method to navigate through the concept of big data and its application in meeting the needs of the people through all round development. These data when properly harnessed can be used for the realisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria. This study adopted development media theory to contextualize and articulate the paradigm of development using Nigeria as a rallying point. The study found that Nigeria as a nation has an abundant data ecosystem that need to be utilise to drive and sustain her developmental drifts. The study also found that the reason many government policies in Nigeria such as Vision 2000, Vision 2010, Millennium Development Goals, Zero Hunger Initiative, Operation Feed the Nation, and Vision 2020 including various power generation programmes by successive administrations in Nigeria failed is not unconnected with the inability of government or her agencies to target the beneficiaries of the programmes through accurate data. The study recommends that the availability of these data ecosystems in many sectors should be identify and applied to solve human problem. There are urgent need to train human resources in data science together with reporters (data journalist) for optimal usage of data to drive development especially SDGs. |
| Keywords: | Data-Ecosystem, Big Data, SDGs, Government Policies and Development Indices |
