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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN PUBLIC SERVICE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Peter Kappe MAMMAN, Ejikeme Emmanuel ISICHEI, Calvin Nyianshima ANZA
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Effective information management is a strategic fundamental tool for good governance in our modern states and
organizations. To effectively achieve this, one must acquire some basic conceptual skills, human skills and
technical skills. Similarly, the user of information must know and understand informational roles interpersonal
roles, and decisional roles in the face of globalization to create a learning state. Through extensive review of
current articles, periodicals, government documents textbooks, and the internet as secondary data, were
generated to develop the conceptual framework for this paper on which the entire work is built on. Observations
and personal interview were also used as primary data to re-enforce the secondary data gathered through desk
research. The paper observed that time, content and form as the three fundamental broad characteristics of useful
information are negatively out of place leading to low quality information for development of strategic plans in
Nigeria toward good governance. In view, the paper recommends self-appraisal by all the governments and the
governed for effective management of information to serve as a tool for good governance as well as purposeful
leadership with a strong political will to be perused with tenacity. Finally, the paper vehemently advocates that
there be a true transfer of responsibilities and resources from central government to other governments and
developed networks between governments and other state actors such as the civil society, communities, nongovernmental associations and international organization.