FACTORS AFFECTING ADOPTION OF DONOR FUNDED ICT PROJECTS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR IN KENYA
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https://doi.org/10.47941/jepm.46Keywords:
technological factors, Culture, Infrastructural factors, ICT project, Public sectorsAbstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to establish the factors affecting adoption of donor funded ICT projects in the public sector.
Methodology: The research was carried out through a descriptive survey research design. The sampling frame of this survey was a list of state owned enterprises in Nairobi County. The study targeted a population of all the 205 state owned enterprises in Kenya out of which 67 are located in Nairobi County.
Results: The relationship between technological factor and adoption of donor funded ICT projects was positive and significant. The findings imply that technological factor has significant effect on adoption of donor funded ICT projects. The relationship between Infrastructural factor and adoption of donor funded ICT projects was positive and significant. The findings imply that Infrastructural factor has significant effect on adoption of donor funded ICT projects.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: It was recommended that government should consider implementing a robust public sector policy that aims at enhancing ICT use, the development of donor funded ICT project and making ICT hardware and software accessible and affordable to majority of individual and firms. It is recommended that the government considers improving the adoption of donor funded ICT project in public sectors through training in school and institution of higher learning. The management of public sectors should also continue to adopt new forms of technology that would assist in improving donor funded ICT projects. Management of companies should appreciate that in adoption of donor funded ICT project there are benefits of first adapters or first movers.
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