The Relevance of Geographic Information System Technology in Nation Building
Keywords:
GIS, Nation Building, Technology, Planning, Economic Structure, Development, GovernmentAbstract
A good nation building strategy is an attempt to solve generic problems in terms of health, transportation, education, security ecological crisis, agriculture, poverty, land, resource managements for the government and its people in order to improve on the economic structure of a nation. A reasonable government must have a manifesto for nation building planning processes and other programmes in order to solve some pending problems. Many of these problems, if not all, are geographic problems. The essence is therefore to improve on existing sectors and policies and to establish new ones in order for an enhanced livelihood for the citizenry and also to boost the economic structure of the nation. The relevance of Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology in nation building can be connected to the advancement in technology. In today’s technological environment, the emphasis is on Information Technology (IT) that is observed to have gained currency in the scientific world in the past few years. This revolution has added new capabilities to human intelligence arid consequently changed the way we work (mode of operations) and the way we live together (interaction of people). However, Geographic Information System (GIS) being a new technology is helping tremendously in the area of environmental researches and as a decision support tool to complex human problems, thereby enhancing good national policies in nation building plans.