A Performance Evaluation of Impact of Information Technology on Nigeria Banks

The banking sector of the economy has realised that banking requires prompt delivery of services, efficiency and automation of banking operations. This has prompted many Banks in Nigeria to invest huge sums of money in Information Technology to enhance their performance and offer comprehensive nation-wide services to their customers. This paper is a research to determine if the information technology employed by banks is performing to expectation. A survey was conducted· amongst banks in Nigeria. A Likert format questionnaire instrument, which was a .: . hybrid, adapted from Ron Weber IT performance Evaluation technique was designed and administered among bank staff in 34 banks within Lagos metropolis to ascertain the status of huge investment on IT in their banks. The questionnaire was analysed using simple percentage and Chi square statistical techniques. It was found that the information technology employed by Nigerian Banks have been performing to expectation, but with occasional downtime

An Ethnography of Moving in Nairobi: Pedestrians, Handcarts, Minibuses and the Vitality of Urban Mobility

abstract: This ethnography follows mobile trajectories on roads in Nairobi to investigate how the transformation of transport infrastructure has affected people’s everyday mobility. I follow diverse mobile actors, including pedestrians, handcart (mkokoteni) workers, and minibus (matatu) operators, whose practices and ideas of moving are central to understand the city’s ordinary mobility. I also situate their everyday ways of moving in the rules, plans and ideas of regulators, such as government officials, engineers and international experts, who focus on decongesting roads and attempt to reshape Nairobi’s better urban mobility. Despite official and popular aspirations for building new roads and other public transport infrastructure, I argue that many mobile actors still pursue and struggle with preexisting and non-motorized means and notions of moving that are not reflected in the promise of and plans for better mobility. This ethnography also reveals how certain important forms of ordinary mobility have been socially marginalized. It explores what kinds of difficulties are created when the infrastructural blueprints of road “experts” and the notions that politicians promote about a new urban African mobility fail to match the reality of everyday road use by the great majority of Nairobi residents. By employing mobile participant observation of the practices of moving, this study also finds important ethnographic implications and suggestions for the study of mobile subjects in an African city where old and new forms of mobility collide.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Anthropology 201

Main Street, America: Histories of I-95

“Main Street, America: Histories of I-95” fills a historiographical gap by arguing the Interstate Highway System can only be accurately understood through the study of local histories. The existing literature tends toward national, system-wide evaluations and consequently fails to capture the complexity of the Interstate Highway’s interaction with the communities through which it passes. By focusing on the backbone of the Interstate Highway System, I-95, this dissertation demonstrates responses to Interstate Highways were dependent on the interplay of myriad local factors. Additionally, it argues that I- 95’s effect on communities was determined by local conditions. Studying individual communities along a single route results in a new way of understanding the Interstate Highway System. Rather than serving as a simple catalyst of economic growth or a harbingers of destroyed cities, I-95 (and by extension, the larger Interstate Highway System) emerges as a far more interesting subject, one with a history more complex than previously understood

Montana Business Quarterly, Summer 2000

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 38, number 2.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtbusinessquarterly/1162/thumbnail.jp

All Roads Lead to the Fair: How a 2022 Los Angeles World\u27s Fair Would Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable and Innovative Forms of Transportation

This thesis explores the potential impact of a World’s Fair on urban mobility in Los Angeles County by 2022. A brief historical account of World’s Fairs, and their impact on technological innovations in transportation will be given in conjunction with the development of transportation in Los Angeles. These accounts will help to contextualize an analysis of current plans to provide Los Angeles with transportation solutions, in light of the oversaturated automobile landscape in place today. Specifically, my research has revealed that the further development of light-speed rail systems paired alongside a mass adoption of autonomous vehicles would both alleviate contemporary transportation issues across Los Angeles County and accommodate the audience of international spectators that future mega-events may attract. Particular attention is paid to the Los Angeles World’s Fair for its ability to galvanize the resources and support that these transportation innovations require. I therefore conclude that the Los Angeles World Fair should direct its focus principally in support of these aforementioned technologies, as opposed to other less feasible transportations solutions such as the Hyperloop

Spartan Daily, November 2, 1961

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