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| A Multi-Criteria Perceptional Analysis Towards Integrating ICT for the Control of Child Abuse and Trafficking |
Oladapo J. Elugbadebo, Johnson Femi Temitope
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Abstract:
The informative role of communication technology in education and national development cannot be over emphasized. It has brought significant changes and improvement in this present century. With the ever increasing rate in the adoption and usage of ICT gadgets, there still exists a noticeable gap due to poor mindset, disbelief, negligence and lack of technological know-how of deployable innovations towards its application in curbing the menace (Child abuse and trafficking) which has a negative effect on the development of any nation. This paper examined through a well-planned and systematically conducted research the beneficial roles of integrating ICT for the control of Child abuse and human trafficking with a prior knowledge of the methods and adopted by child traffickers. In order to ascertain the investigate role ICT can play in putting an end to the menace, five selected ministries in the western part of Nigeria, precisely Ogun state were selected as case study. A simple random technique was used to select a total of two hundred respondents; data collected were analyzed using the statistical Chi-square formulae. Based on the result obtained, it clearly depicts that ICT can play a significant role in controlling child abuse and human trafficking in the society if properly utilized with a great and promising mindset. However, the successful introduction and implementation of the use of ICT based gadgets requires the cooperation of government, non-governmental or private organizations and individuals in sharing information and communicating in a timely manner to avert the associated problems that may arise due to child abuse and trafficking
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